Stewart Jackson is Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Davis MP, the Brexit Secretary.
This tweet by him is some indication of his openness to a wide range of opinion on the issues his boss is considering:
Stewart Jackson MP (@Stewart4Pboro)
16/10/2016, 00:51
Had enough of liberal smugness, Remoaner whining & rampant Europhilia @TheEconomist & cancelled my subscription. UK patriots shd do similar
I think small minded is too kind a description.
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He’s a charmer. This from Wikipedia:
On 26 June 2016 Rupert Myers, a well-known and respected political correspondent, Tweeted about the outcome of the Referendum of the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union “I can’t get over the fact that the winning side lied about a whole bunch of stuff & yet expect us to live cheerfully with the result”. Stewart Jackson replied from his verified Twitter account “Suck it up whiner…”
A grammar school boy, no less.
It gets better Richard….. Those of us with any pro-Eu leanings at all are going to be sent to the Tower if this chap has his way!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/17/call-to-keep-uk-in-eu-should-be-treason-urges-tory-councillors-petition
Democracy, what democracy. Its going to be a bit crowded in that Tower.;-)
I plead guilty now
Never fear, bankers and other financial wizards (parasites?) will be kept safe.
Unfortunately the whole population will have to pay through the nose to keep them in their EU-Tower of London.
I rather think that the best strategy is to leave the right-wing government and their three foolish Brexit ministers to come up with policies which are guaranteed to damage the economy and leave most of the people in the country worse off. If public opinion polls then come out fairly strongly against these policies it will then be much easier to push to reconsider the whole Brexit nonsense, with a proper debate and a proper decision made by Parliament and the MPs who were elected to run the country. It is also essential that the narrative of this massive public opinion win for Brexit is resisted.The actual win was only about 1.3 million out of 30 million. What has become clear is that the lies told by the Brexiteers really were lies and in many of the promises are simply not going to be fulfilled. The right-wing media are trumpeting the fabulous future of Brexit. Soon we will see that it is very far from fabulous. Allowing the UK to dig a deep, deep hole for itself economically and socially will be an irresponsibility that will be so difficult to explain to our children and grandchildren.
That is the sort of intolerant rhetoric that lead to the killing of Jo Cox.
Stewart Jackson should be ashamed of himself.
Possibly this article was the last straw?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/10/daily-chart-6
It’s disgraceful for an MP to talk like that – absolutely disgraceful. He needs to be censured. He sounds like an American red neck for goodness sake.
It seems to be that there is a new form of homo sapien emerging that is almost transnational in its dispersal across the globe and has many common characteristics such as an intolerance of others, an indifference to facts and expertise, a love of an artificial history and a rejection of modernity.
Ladies and gentleman I give you ………….’Homo Sapiens Trumpetus’ – found in all failing societies everywhere.
BTW
Richard – I have to protest.
Donkeys are actually useful animals. To equate people like Jackson with a useful beast of burden is quite wrong. Only human beings can be this unbearable.
🙂
Sun Tzu, to summarise, know your enemy.
I’m afraid the world has been here before, and relatively recently.
It is alleged (or perhaps only posited, on the basis of their behaviour) that in January 2001, George “Dubya” Bush and Dick Cheney suffered about 5 minutes of remorse and sober consideration in their first 5 minutes of power when contemplating the sobering reality that they had NOT won the popular vote, Al Gore having secured about 500,000 more votes than Dubya, and that they owed their position to the weird, and easily corruptible, operations of that Chimaera, the American Electoral College.
And then, 5 minutes past, they are said to have said: “Nah, we’ve won; we’re in power, and can do what we like”, which they proceeded to do, wrecking the US economy, squandering Bill Clinton’s “golden legacy”, and murderously intervening in Afghanistan, and even worse, Iraq, leaving both States, or certainly Iraq, in a far worse state than they had found it.
Ignorance, arrogance and stupidity ruled them, in America. Alas, those same attributes seem to be ruling BREXIT now – the omens are decidedly most unfavourable!
Stewart Jackson MP’s inference that you are not patriotic if you voted to stay in the EU is pathetic and further alienates the 48% of us that don’t subscribe to his xenophobic little Englander world view.
When are they going to start burning books?
The Brexiteers are so keen on swasbuckling freedom and enterprise you would have thought they would have understood that it is only normal business practice to check whether the new premises are up to scratch before moving out of the old.
So far Brexit has provided very little – if anything – positive.
This man is a moron. I have heard it said (Katie Couric on US TV) that some people subscribe to the Economist in order to “look smart”. That was a bit of a surprise initially. I wonder if we might hear from The Economist that he wasn’t a subscriber (you know, like Trump claiming to have corresponded with the NFL and the NFL denying it). Either way, he is boasting about wanting to live in a bubble that provides only information that confirms his biases. There’s a safe place for him. It’s called Facebook. Trump is going to get his comeuppance soon, and the hard Brexiters are riding for a fall. Too bad they will not be the ones most affected by it.
I have always considered myself a liberal. Liberals respect the other person. The uphold their right to be different. They defend their freedoms. They acknowledge their right to hold contrary beliefs. A liberal realises we do not all share customs, but realises that customs matter to us all. True liberalism is the foundation of tolerance. As a result it is the bedrock of modern society, and our democracy.
Indeed
I wrote that
And it is wholly consistent with saying such an illiberal act as Stewart Jackson suggests is indeed illiberal
But as a liberal, you would surely acknowledge his right to hold that belief ?
He can think it
He can say it
But not, I suggest, from the government payroll