40 years of self-indulgent treachery

Sir Patrick Cormack entered Parliament in 1970, when Britain was a constitutional democracy and independent sovereign nation state. He retired from Parliament yesterday to a country that is bankrupt, crime-ridden, immigrant swamped, welfare dependent, de-industrrialized and run by foreigners for their own benefit. Does this individual show the slightest understanding, let alone remorse for what he and his parliamentary colleagues have wrought over these past forty years? Of course not, listen to the cloud cuckoo land claptrap spouted by the retiring knight at 0740 on Radio 4 this morning, linked here. Stomach-churning is it not? Sir Patrick will now retire on an enormous index-linked and unearned pension, where he no doubt will continue to close his eyes to the realities around him. A fitting retirement to warn others of the consequences of such serial betrayals of their obligations would be on the minimum state pension in the meanest of publicly funded accommodation.