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| John Simpson? |
John Simpson, the BBC's World Affairs Editor, is astride his hobby horse at the moment - though whether he's wearing his famous burqa or not I cannot say, alas:
- When I was the BBC political editor, in the early 1980s, I was shocked by the ignorance of most MPs about the way the outside world worked. Judging from today's proceedings in Parliament, things don't seem to have changed much.
- Some people replying to me think the problem lies with MPs having no experience outside politics. I disagree. I think it springs from a lack of knowledge and lack of interest in the way the countries close to us think and operate. The world has changed; too many of us haven't.
- I think MPs can get too bound up with the business and pantomime of Parliament, and believe it's all that matters. Far too many are depressingly ignorant of the world beyond Dover. That drove me crazy in the 80s. Today it's utterly unforgivable.
And the great man has now found a specific MP to loads his general reflections on, and I doubt either Paddy Power or William Hill would have been troubled by large-scale betting on the type of MP John would inevitably land on.
It just had to be a pro-Brexit right-winger.
And one such landed, like a soft, ripe peach, in his lap this weekend:
It just had to be a pro-Brexit right-winger.
And one such landed, like a soft, ripe peach, in his lap this weekend:
