‘You're losing it Andy!’ Remainer Adonis whines May is ‘packing Lords with Brexiteers’
FURIOUS Remainer Lord Adonis has said Theresa May is about to pack the House of Lords with pro-Brexit Tories.
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Lord Adonis, who quit as the PM’s infrastructure tsar when he delivered a scathing verdict on her handling of Britain’s departure from the European Union, has urged Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his Lib Dem counterpart Vince Cable to take action to try to block the move.
The former Labour transport secretary tweeted: “Any day soon the Government hopes to smuggle out news it’s packing the House of Lords with more Brexit Tories, unless media damage causes Mrs May to delay.
“The Tories already have 53 more seats than Labour so this is unconstitutional.
“Jeremy Corbyn and Vince Cable should be saying this loudly!”
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The Tories already have 53 more seats than Labour so this is unconstitutional
His comments drew anger from Brexiteers on Twitter.
Roger O’Keeffe wrote: “Remind me again about Brussels with its unelected bureaucrats and its democratic deficit.
“I’m also intrigued to know how he defines ‘unconstitutional’.”
Another added: “Ha....an unelected peer...speaks out.
“Packing the Lords, or so threatening, is entirely constitutional and has been done before to prevent the Lords obstructing democracy.
“You are losing it Andy.”
Remainers also hit out at the Lord’s comments.
Gerard McDermott said: “I am certainly not a Brexiteer and can see this would not be terribly satisfactory but why would it be unconstitutional?”
Lord Adonis stood down as chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission last Friday, claiming Mrs May had sided with Ukip and the "Tory hard right".
He said he was "duty bound" to oppose the Government's European Union (Withdrawal) Bill when it comes to the House of Lords.
In his resignation letter he told the Prime Minister: "Brexit is a populist and nationalist spasm worthy of Donald Trump.
"After the narrow referendum vote, a form of associate membership of the EU might have been attempted without rupturing Britain's key trading and political alliances.
"Instead, by allying with Ukip and the Tory hard right to wrench Britain out of the key economic and political institutions of modern Europe, you are pursuing a course fraught with danger. Even within Ireland, there are set to be barriers between people and trade.
"If Brexit happens, taking us back into Europe will become the mission of our children's generation, who will marvel at your acts of destruction."
He warned the Government is "hurtling towards the EU's emergency exit with no credible plan for the future of British trade and European co-operation, all the while ignoring - beyond soundbites and inadequate programmes - the crises of housing, education, the NHS, and social and regional inequality which are undermining the fabric of our nation and feeding a populist surge".
Whitehall sources indicated that Lord Adonis, whose frequent criticism of Brexit had caused outrage among Tory Eurosceptics, had "jumped before he was pushed".