Reply To: Our Euroelection campaign
The duo of outgoing MEPs, Howarth (Labour) and Ashworth (ex-Tory, now Gang of Independent Renegades) were also at Chesham and are due to speak at Oxford this evening, so by the end of the week they will know what the Party case is even if they don’t agree with it. I clashed with them over the powers of the European Parliament. I said it wasn’t a proper law-making body as this was the Council of Ministers of the Member States. They both protested but afterwards Ashworth partially conceded that I had been right. In fact these elections should see the demise of the so-called “Change UK” party. Good riddance. One less reformist party.
Also at Chesham was the squabbling between the Greens and the LibDems. They needn’t worry. They’ll both get elected. Ashworth is the one who should be (and presumably is) worried as he’s very likely to lose his seat.
Apologies for this bourgeois politics trainspotting.