- Sat Jan 28, 2017 4:09 pm
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I caught the lunchtime repeat of Any Questions with Stella on the panel earlier today.
As you would expect, it was dominated by discussion about Trump, May, Brexit, and Article 50.
At the end, I was more or less elated by an absolutely stellar (pun not really intended) performance by Stella. Seriously, she was so impressive it's well worth your while going back to Iplayer to listen to it.
On the Article 50 vote in particular, she was crystal clear, logical, reasoned, honest, direct, angry and passionate about why she cannot vote with the government on the Article 50 trigger enabling bill. In very simple language, it simply isn't right for this country and May's Tories have handled it so badly that she cannot support triggering Article 50 under these circumstances. She received a thunderous round of applause from the audience.
I tell you, I said to myself there and then that I would be absolutely delighted to have this woman as leader of our party, and imaginng myself as an uncommitted voter I'd be pledging my vote to her without hesitation. The contrast with the utterly hopeless Corbyn was just so stark.
As you would expect, it was dominated by discussion about Trump, May, Brexit, and Article 50.
At the end, I was more or less elated by an absolutely stellar (pun not really intended) performance by Stella. Seriously, she was so impressive it's well worth your while going back to Iplayer to listen to it.
On the Article 50 vote in particular, she was crystal clear, logical, reasoned, honest, direct, angry and passionate about why she cannot vote with the government on the Article 50 trigger enabling bill. In very simple language, it simply isn't right for this country and May's Tories have handled it so badly that she cannot support triggering Article 50 under these circumstances. She received a thunderous round of applause from the audience.
I tell you, I said to myself there and then that I would be absolutely delighted to have this woman as leader of our party, and imaginng myself as an uncommitted voter I'd be pledging my vote to her without hesitation. The contrast with the utterly hopeless Corbyn was just so stark.
"The opportunity to serve our country. That is all we ask." John Smith, Leader of the Labour Party, 10 May 1994.