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Tobias Ellwood on R4 Any Questions just now (though can he still be described as a politician? Don’t know his role/s now) - re global shift & dangerous state of the world currently, need to increase our defences, stand up to Putin, re-discover the cold-war arts of knowing and subtly playing your enemy etc.
Panel unusually in agreement with each other - others Josh Simons MP, Sonia Sodha - on this, barring a bit of pushback from Jake Berry (Reform).
No idea re Ellwood. What I do know is that whoever he is on this he is right. Sadly, this government and their predecessors are not interested. Trying to secure their vote is the only game in town. It was with the tories to the point of a Russian in the HoL and I suspect much worse besides.
The ever more dangerous world we live in? Heads in the sand, complete and utter denial. We have no deterrent to the evil people in the world, including Trump, and have no intention to do anything about it. I look forward to the next review. We will pay the price sadly - or more correctly, given I have lived many more years than I have left, future generations will.
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Haven’t heard a politician as genuinely passionate/angry as that for years on 22:27 - Dec 12 with 627 views
Haven’t heard a politician as genuinely passionate/angry as that for years on 22:27 - Dec 12 by Kievthegreat
He took Boris to task a few years ago and specifically raised the issue of Russia:
Boris' responses don't age well.
Christ. You forget how utterly useless and unfit Johnson was as PM. I remember seeing this at the time because his comment about tanks was jumped on when Russia invaded Ukraine. But I’d thankfully forgotten how hopeless he was when being questioned.
Haven’t heard a politician as genuinely passionate/angry as that for years on 22:35 - Dec 12 by Swansea_Blue
Christ. You forget how utterly useless and unfit Johnson was as PM. I remember seeing this at the time because his comment about tanks was jumped on when Russia invaded Ukraine. But I’d thankfully forgotten how hopeless he was when being questioned.
Johnson was a clueless windbag that’d take a handout from Satan if it was offered. A fraud, yet plenty swallowed his nonsense. He should be in jail.
But he’s gone now, along with his hapless successors. We can blame the tories and the governments before them till the cows come home. But we are where we are.
Ever shrinking capability with no intent to face up to external or indeed internal threats and do something about it. Not a priority after 17 months in power and full knowledge of the situation long before that.
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Haven’t heard a politician as genuinely passionate/angry as that for years on 04:30 - Dec 13 with 398 views
Haven’t heard a politician as genuinely passionate/angry as that for years on 04:30 - Dec 13 by BlueForYou
Used to be my local MP. Liked him a lot, he always talked a lot of sense. Hope he gets back in.
Sone people may remember him for trying to save the life of police officer Keith Palmer after he was stabbed to death outside the House of Commons in a terrorist attack.
Haven’t heard a politician as genuinely passionate/angry as that for years on 07:43 - Dec 13 by GlasgowBlue
Sone people may remember him for trying to save the life of police officer Keith Palmer after he was stabbed to death outside the House of Commons in a terrorist attack.
Ah, ta for the reminder that it was him. You are right.
I certainly remember the incident. I was in a meeting in the Treasury on Westminster Abbey side of the building and because of the build/WW2 strengthening of that end of the building heard nothing. I had the phone on mute and started getting messages such as ‘are you ok’, ‘where are you’, ‘are you dead’ etc etc. Strange, thought I.
The meeting ended so I phoned my mate up and assured him that to my knowledge I was alive and well. What was the problem? Go look out of a Parliament Square facing window said he. So I did. My room in Parliament St looked out on it. A tsunami of emergency services and police with the cordon fast approaching.
I thought ‘bad’. Once the cordon extended beyond the building you were locked in for goodness knows how long and it was fast approaching. Not me, thought I. Grabbed my laptop and fled out of the Treasury entrance and away through St James Park.
5 innocent people died in that attack with 48 injured. A truly awful event (one of far too many) and well done Mr Elwood for trying to save Keith Palmer’s life.
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Haven’t heard a politician as genuinely passionate/angry as that for years on 09:51 - Dec 13 with 135 views
He's the pole opposite to Zelensky isn't he - a politician who in office turned out to be a horribly bad leader & comedian - as opposed to a good comedian who in office turned out to be a great leader and politician.
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