David Lammy – Britain’s Next Foreign Secretary?
Dr Vernon Coleman
If Labour win the election on July 4th then David Lammy is likely to be British Foreign Secretary on July 5th. Here are a few things everyone in the world should know about Mr Lammy.
1. David Lammy MP was an enthusiastic supporter of the covid 19 vaccine.
2. Lammy was a vociferous opponents of the British people’s referendum to leave the EU. Like many other Labour MPs he is not afraid to stand shoulder to shoulder with Goldman Sachs in opposing the will of the British people. Immediately after the referendum, Lammy called on Parliament to vote against the people’s clear decision to leave the European Union. He claimed that the referendum was advisory and not binding, implying that he and other MPs knew better than 17.4 million Britons. In the weeks and months that followed Lammy, a keen tweeter, became an increasingly hysterical opponent of the decision by the British people and an enthusiastic proponent of a second referendum. (Since he had claimed that the first one was not binding he was presumably demanding a second chance for the British to vote and to be ignored.)
3. Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, is a former Higher Education and Skills Minister.
4. Lammy claimed that he was raised in a family dependent upon tax credits. However, tax credits were not introduced until he was 31 years old.
5. On a radio programme, Lammy said that it is possible for someone born male to develop a cervix.
6. Lammy attacked the BBC for wondering about the colour of the smoke likely to appear from the Vatican when the cardinals met to choose a Pope. The BBC had reported that the smoke would be white or grey and Lammy appeared to regard this as potentially racist. The Vatican has, of course, recorded the choosing of a new Pope with this smoke signal for some time.
7. Lammy claimed (in 2012) that absent fathers were a key cause of knife crime. He said that most young people who have stabbed someone to death come from single parent families. In 2019 he was outraged when a newspaper columnist suggested that the absence of fathers might be associated with the stabbing epidemic in London.
8. Lammy suggested (when he was a minister in the last Labour Government) that the British government should send letters to all black British people apologising for slavery. There was no suggestion that the British government should send letters to all white British people thanking them for abolishing slavery.
9. Lammy appeared on a programme called Mastermind on British television. When asked for the name of the Nobel Prize winner for Physics in 1903 the former Minister for Higher Education and Skills suggested Marie Antoinette. He did not, however, mention her work for the cake industry. On the same programme he claimed that the large prison in the middle of Paris was called Versailles and said, in response to another question, that Henry VII came after Henry VIII.
10. In March 2016 Lammy was fined £5,000 for making 35,629 nuisance calls (via a computer).
Some might find it startling and slightly unnerving that Mr Lammy has been elected as an MP and was Minister of Higher Education and Skills. How much unnerving is it that he seems to be in-line to be Britain’s new Foreign Secretary.
I’ve had balloons which I’d prefer as Foreign Secretary to David Lammy.
NOTE
To find out what sort of future we all face please read `They want your money and your life’ by Vernon Coleman. It’ll scare you even more than the prospect of David Lammy as Foreign Secretary. You can buy a copy via the bookshop on www.vernoncoleman.com
Copyright Vernon Coleman June 2024
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