05-18-2013, 09:41 PM
"mad swivel-eyed loons". Sheer poetry, I tell you!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...21897.html
Number 10 has denied that "anyone in Downing Street" made comments describing Tory party activists as "mad swivel-eyed loons". The comments, reported in a number of newspapers this morning, had allegedly come from a close aide to David Cameron.
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The comment was made by a senior Tory who said MPs are having to put up a show of opposition to gay marriage and Europe simply to keep local Conservative associations sweet.
He suggested that were it not for the demands of party activists the MPs would be far less likely to take up extreme positions that have undermined the Prime Minister in recent weeks.
Referring to Wednesday’s vote when 116 Tory MPs voted against the Queen’s Speech, he said: It’s fine. There’s really no problem. The MPs just have to do it because the associations tell them to, and the associations are all mad swivel-eyed loons.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...21897.html
Number 10 has denied that "anyone in Downing Street" made comments describing Tory party activists as "mad swivel-eyed loons". The comments, reported in a number of newspapers this morning, had allegedly come from a close aide to David Cameron.
--
The comment was made by a senior Tory who said MPs are having to put up a show of opposition to gay marriage and Europe simply to keep local Conservative associations sweet.
He suggested that were it not for the demands of party activists the MPs would be far less likely to take up extreme positions that have undermined the Prime Minister in recent weeks.
Referring to Wednesday’s vote when 116 Tory MPs voted against the Queen’s Speech, he said: It’s fine. There’s really no problem. The MPs just have to do it because the associations tell them to, and the associations are all mad swivel-eyed loons.”