Tory peer Chris Patten labelled ‘woke’ for evisceration of Brexit on Query Time

Chris Patten appeared on BBC Query Time this week and didn’t maintain again on his ideas about Brexit and the present state of play in Britain.

Conceding that the UK financial system is in ‘one hell of a multitude,’ the Tory peer tore Brexit aside. He cited the impression the nation’s departure from the EU has had on the pound, labour prices and imports, whereas arguing that Poland and Lithuania are faring a lot better.

“The reality is we’re in a single hell of a multitude. Our GDP per capita now could be lower than not solely France, Germany, the Netherlands, it’s decrease than Eire,” the told the Question Time audience, including:

“It’s decrease for heaven’s sake than Lithuania. The poorest 20% in Britain are poorer than the poorest 20% in Poland. That’s not the signal of a rustic which has issues going for it.”

Patten, who was chairman of the Tory Social gathering from 1990 to 1992 and was made a life peer in 2005, continued: “But it surely’s additionally, and this can be a phrase one isn’t supposed to make use of anymore, due to Brexit.

“It’s due to what Brexit did to the worth of the pound. It’s due to what Brexit has executed to make it tougher for us to import items and for us to import labour and importing meals.

“Now it’s costing us, in response to the (London College of Economics), £7 billion extra a 12 months as a result of we’re outdoors the European Union.

“And till we begin going through as much as the realities of our life, to the truth that we will’t probably spend cash on all of the issues we would like, enhance public spending and minimize taxes, it’s completely unattainable.”

Whereas Patten’s criticism of Brexit triggered a close to unanimous applause from the Query Time viewers, it sparked anger amongst Brexiteers, with the Tory peer being labelled as ‘woke’ for his views on Brexit.

“Oh right here we go one other woke pushed leftie banging on in regards to the state of Britain,” wrote one irate viewer.

In the meantime, Sir Michael Take provided some satirical response:

“I get up to Chris Patten belittling our nice nation. Now look right here Mr Patten you flacid, leftist mouthpiece simply assume. We’re one of the best at: Pageantry, pomp, Eurovision, trickling down, grooming, preventing Putin, rising the pie, please simply ignore this fool.”

Others alluded to how the labelling of Patten as ‘woke’ and ‘leftie’ reveals how simply far to the fitting the Conservative Social gathering has gone.

“The factor is, Patten is neither woke nor leftie – he’s a Conservative politician from the Thatcherite period. Individuals want to understand simply how far to the fitting the present authorities has lurched.”

Although this isn’t the primary time Patten had publicly denounced Brexit. In 2019, the Tory grandee insisted that Margaret Thatcher would have been ‘horrified’ by the Brexit ‘shambles’ and backed requires a second referendum on EU withdrawal.

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead is a contributing editor to Left Foot Ahead

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