No, not from the Labour front bench. Not from the Lib Dems or the Greens. But from inside his own party. Phil Hammond is the best the Tories can do. They don’t want to appear too psychotic with the right wing rabidity of the anti EU brigade and yet on the other hand they want to ensure that the vast number of MP’s in their ranks who voted to Remain are appeased. Out of nowhere comes ‘Spreadsheet Phil’ (coined by the Chelsea kit man David Mellor). in his pin striped costume ready to hammer the self employed. What? Wait? Who?
Not the children of 80’s Thatcherism surely? Not ‘White Van Man’? It cannot be. Not those who despise the immigrants, on the one hand, for setting up in competition but love them on the other for their cheap labour?
What can be happening? Has the world joined Michael Bentine in celestial potty time?
All I know is that predicting tomorrow in politics is like finding anything in the New Testament comparable with Theresa May’s policies.
Douglas James
