Here in Ipswich, we have an MP who slavishly follows his leader in everything he says and does. During August, he contributed to a letter (above) that bears further scrutiny on three points:
Here, in a letter (above) delivered just before the Bank Holiday, he was desperately calling for a general election, only to vote against, on 4th September, a proposal to dissolve Parliament.
As you can see, it is almost identical to this letter (left), distributed at the same time in Darlington.
You will also note that he accuses the Prime Minister of having been elected by “a handful” of Members of Parliament and party members across the country. Now I have examined my hands closely and counted four fingers and one thumb on each – furthermore, having studied mathematics, I am confident that I have accounted accurately for my digits. As it, happens, Mr. Johnson’s Parliamentary vote peaked at 160 and his membership vote at 92 153, both of which greatly exceed five, unless I am very much mistaken. In any case, 92153 greatly exceeds the number of Labour members at large who voted in 1976 and 2007 for new Prime Ministers: none at all outside Parliament on either occasion!
Does Mr. Martin have exceptionally large hands, with ninety thousand or more fingers on each? Perhaps, after his private education in Winchester, he progressed to the Hackney School of Mathematics? Either way, he has defined himself not as Ipswich’s man at Westminster but Labour’s Cyberman in Ipswich.
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