Her Thatcherian nose quivered, as would that of a terrier scenting the breeze for sausages.
Nothing to do with BBC bias but why let a brilliantly observed, brutally honest and less than flattering portrait of Soubry’s most recognisable character traits go without a wider audience?…….
Old Soubry looked like she’d bitten a crab apple: QUENTIN LETTS watches pro-EU figures squabble in the Commons
David Cameron often mocks the Leave campaign for its disunity but in the Commons yesterday we had squabbling between top pro-EU figures.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid and his colleague Anna Soubry so went out of their way to berate Labour Europhiles, it was almost as if they wanted to create a diversion.
Old Soubry is an incorrigible pugilist. She could have picked a fight with Little Weed, this one.
Even before a word was uttered at yesterday’s Questions to the Business Department, she sat on the Government bench with her lips drawn into a fruity strop – a woman who had just bitten a crab apple.
Her Thatcherian nose quivered, as would that of a terrier scenting the breeze for sausages. La Soubry has been a Europhile since the 1970s, when she and her hot pants were a source of fever among Young Conservatives.
Her boss Javid is a more recent convert to the glories of communautaire socialism. Until the start of this year Mr Javid styled himself as a bold Eurosceptic.
Now, bingo, he is right behind Mr Cameron’s Love Brussels gang. Careerism can do that to a man.
Mr Javid and Miss Soubry, perhaps wishing us to think of something other than the collapse of his principles, threw insults at the Labour leadership.
Miss Soubry went first, complaining that Jeremy Corbyn was not doing enough to campaign for Brussels. ‘He’d be better doing that than engaging in CND rallies!’ she thundered, in reply to a perfectly friendly question from Labour’s Ian Lucas (Wrexham).
Kevin Brennan, Labour frontbencher, protested that Miss Soubry should look at divisions in the Tory party. Miss Soubry, shaking her peroxide mane, snorted that ‘the Labour leader is failing in his duty to play a full part in the Remain campaign’.
Funny how events throw up MPs who become larger than life as character actors in the sad rituals of the House of Commons – al Beeb feeds the eccentric by for ever rolling them out on their wireless and tv channels. I still have fond memories of her sobbing when the vote came in for Brexit.
When if / it ever happens much of the wind in her sails will go for a while until she gets together with the other losers and starts the campaign to rejoin- led , hopefully, by a certain” Nick”- currently writing his version of being a failing remainer.
I think soubry does us brexiters a favour every time al Beeb put her on.
Soubry was carping on about getting bullied on Twitter for being an EU traitor in the nest.
Think she wanted the Telegraph etc nobbled, after their front page yesterday. Who knew or cared?
This on live TV when Universal Credit was supposed to have been getting debated.
But it`s always about Anna.
Who-as you said Fed-inevitably makes our leaving the EU more certain as she waves a sloe gin bottle with a fat slug in it , whenever she can be wheeled into the BBC studio like a dowager duchess on a disabilty scooter.
Her Notts constituents really needed Sybil Fawlty. How they got this self pitying sot is an odd story surely.
Soubry and Thornberry are two of a kind. One often times looks as though she’s been on the Gin, the other behaves as if she has.
Soubry it is who always looks as though she’s had one too many.
Letts is the King of the parliamentary sketch writers. He nearly always hits the bull’s-eye.
Letts however was easily bullied out of wearing a poppy on “Have I Got News For You”.The answer to that rhetorical question is the same every week.
So Letts is a bit of a popinjay on the Soviet spade, mildly diverting-amusing-but won`t go near the real targets.
If I were Bob Geldof, I`d sue Hislop for bullying his ex wife to an early death on his never ending gig on our dime.
But Bobs got form here-but it`d be fun to see them in the Courts checking inot the sexual harrassment and early bullying of poor Paula.
Getting sausages in today was a nice extra touch
Sour by name and sour by nature.
Brimful of ego but very little else. These days her natural home should really be with the libdems but she is fully aware that there – she would be just another bland shrill but within the Tory party she can still get camera time whenever she opens her poisonous mouth. Maybe she should invest in a pair of mirror lens sunglasses too.
This “Quislingesque”character appears both biter and sour at the same time. As well as leaving a bad taste in the mouth she also leaves all pervading foul odour, which I am sure she considers a “badge of honour” And just like a psychopath she takes great pride in causing mayhem but little interest in the consequences for the rest of us.
All in all an S H 1 T of the highest order