Mr Lammy was commenting on a wholly inaccurate report that Michael Gove, speaking at the German Embassy on the German Day of German Unity, said that the UK's decision to leave EU was on a par with fall of Berlin Wall and East Germans' quest for freedom. This was based on an untruth tweeted by a British professor who was present.
The idea of Mr Lammy telling Mr Gove, a very erudite man who quoted Dryden in a political speech, to be better read takes the biscuit. Mr Lammy was asked by John Humphreys on Celebrity Mastermind last December 'Who succeeded to the English throne aged 9 on the death of his father Henry VIII in 1547?' and answered 'Henry VII'.
Michael Gove reminds me of Newt Gingrich in the United States. A tone-deaf, compromised and faintly ridiculous person whom many laud as brilliant because he can casually toss off some irrelevant gem by Montaigne or Suetonius.
ReplyDeleteI had a high opinion of him but he caused all our problems by first not standing for the leadership in 2016 and then changing his mind and doing so. He is responsible for Teresa May and those three very badly wasted years. I also dislike his enthusiasm for large scale immigration. I did not like his hero Portillo but I am surprised that no-one except a Liberal Democrat friend of mine has suggested Portillo for PM.
ReplyDeleteNewt of course compared Donald Trump to Andrew Jackson.
ReplyDeleteMr Lammy is a race-baiting demagogue - and inhumanly stupid even by the standards of other MPs.
ReplyDeleteLike Mr Trump, Andrew Jackson was highly aggressive. Unlike Mr Trump he was a military man of considerable courage and discipline.
ReplyDeleteMr Trump admires him and thinks had he been President 20 years later he could have prevented the Civil War - but it is not PC to wish the Civil War, in which 500,000 died, could have been avoided and he got attacked by historians for this. Personally I detest Lincoln who was the reason why the war happened. I disagree with Pope Francis about that and other things.
ReplyDeleteI intended to read a biography of Jackson. I did in my first term of university, but that was long ago and in another country.
Jackson was a much greater man, I expect, though nothing can detract from the Donald's achievement in becoming President in the way that he did. Jackson of course did terrible things to Indians and was a slave owner.
ReplyDelete"How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Dr Johnson in Taxation No Tyranny (1775).