Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 8:47 pm
Voice of reason, Steve Baker, tries to talk the Tories out of their Patel twattery on kneeling footballers.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... g-the-knee
Baker is an odd one. Don't doubt that he's genuine here- seen him praise David Lammy's justice ideas before when there was no obvious reason for him to do so. But he's got a few citizens of nowhere and quite a large non-white population in his constituency, so it makes sense for him to distinguish himself from Rosindell and co.
I can undrstand Mercer, and a few others.
Baker I always had penned in as one of the bitter end headbangers.
No need to repeat Baker's credentials here.
Maybe some calmer heads are noticing how the culture wars are spinning out of control.
Maybe he's "doing a Nadhim Zahawi" and rowing back from a poorly chosen battle.
Close enough to "Get brexit done" to not be a traitorous wet, but speak truth to the party animals at the top.