Dear Andrea Leadsom, shrinking the state is the opposite of patriotism | Polly Toynbee
by Polly Toynbee from Economics | The Guardian on (#2V1BX)
The leader of the House of Commons accuses broadcasters of not being patriotic - yet the Tories have betrayed the nation through cuts to our most valued services and institutions
Patriotic? Who? Not the Tory Brexiteers who have brought this country so alarmingly low. While EU politics are rebooted with new Franco-German confidence, our government is only saved by the Democratic Unionist party. Ignominy doesn't get much more mortifying than that.
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