It is not like Booker to be kind to politicians but, as we have both watched the performance of Environment Secretary Owen Paterson over the last couple of weeks, we have both agreed that we were witnessing something exceptional. Interestingly, even Peter Oborne seems to agree.

Mr Paterson, he says, is the only politician to have emerged well from what is, in essence, a bogus political storm. His handling of this issue has been sensible and unflappable, offering all the right reassurances while refusing to panic.

Thus writes Booker in this weeks column, the real drama behind the ongoing story which for the past two weeks has been leading the news across Europe has been almost wholly missed.

Read here... http://www.eureferendum....ogview.aspx?blogno=83634

And accountability for the EU's total fuck up and those who supported it and continue to do so?

As for that mouthy ignorant bitch, Creagh, I hope she bumps into some latter day Jack The Ripper.

Four hundred more MPs like the Right Honourable Owen Paterson and we could clean this shithole of a country up. We certainly need 600+ fewer of the scum we have now.

Get that creepy lying Cameron of out Number 10 so Paterson can move in. And do it NOW.

He knows how to pick his advisers well. A VERY good sign.

I suspect that the Cameron supporters are plotting against Paterson as we speak. I did a quick search on "Cameron supports Paterson" and got zero results returned.

I found this though from The Scotsman:

"The impression of a drifting government was pounced on by Labour, with Mr Paterson’s shadow, Mary Creagh, saying: “The public must have confidence that the food they buy is properly labelled, legal and safe whether it is bought from a supermarket or in a school canteen. It is worrying that No 10 cannot rule out horse meat being served in our schools and hospitals.

“This scandal is now in its fourth week, and the incompetent Defra Secretary is nowhere to be found. He should get a grip.”

Do you think that at PMQs on Wednesday that Cameron will defend Paterson and go after Creagh. I would be surprised if that happened. Cannot have people thinking that the EU is a nasty beast can we?

Interesting website Vincent. As it is close to Bradford, I wonder if Dr. North has anything to say about Wakefield Council or indeed Wakefield Voice. The corruption and lies are probably true for councils up and down the country.

I hope this is not something the bobbies forced you to post before carrying you off to the Tower...
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Harpy Creagh, is right out of metropolitan Marxist central casting - London estuarine accent [no Yorkie is she..... what did Wakefield ever do to deserve that?]. All righteous leftist indignation [bollox], spitting hellcat and sulphurous fire, loads of brimstone but significant of not a lot. I mean, lets be honest here, Mary's tares fell on rather barren ground, which undernourished her formation, hence the bitter tang. She is picking on the wrong man, it will come back on her when Mr Paterson has the time to focus on the Labour benches, however, he is rather busy at the moment.

Owen Paterson, is doing as much as he can, I rather think he is a decent lad but am slightly askance at his choice of political bedfellows, it surely must give the bloke nightmares and bring out figurative hives on his skin.

As John says above, with a few more [619] perhaps there would be hope for Westminster.