LAST WEEK’S frenzied atmosphere at Westminster bodes ill for Britain. Surely the time for loyalty to political parties must end in favour of prioritising Parliament itself.

These days must end this impotent and ineffectual government.

Think now on Britain’s future and reflect on this. We have witnessed Julian Smith, the Government’s Chief Whip playing games with the vote-pairing system and announcing a “mistake” when he failed to pair with a missing MP absent through pregnancy. Mistake my foot.

Next Minister Andrew Griffiths sends 2,000 explicit “sexts” leaving us to wonder what value is the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy ?

Goodness knows how desperately Britain needs a coherent industrial strategy yet we have a minister now seeking treatment.

Then we find Jeremy Hunt promoted to Foreign Secretary plus the credible, honourable, decent David Davies resigning as Brexit Minister to be replaced by who?

Brussels must be quaking at the prospect of an unknown “nobody”

taking back the EU’s resounding message to May, which will be “Non”.

Finally, the PM. Theresa May as Home Secretary conceiving and implementing “Windrush”

along with the misery it brought to British citizens falsely excluded from Britain and likely to cost taxpayers millions in compensation, makes Amber Rudd her scapegoat in forcing her resignation as (then) Home Secretary.

Decency, leadership? The febrile, out-of-control Westminster atmosphere will accelerate as London’s heatwave hits this week and the prospect of no agreement looms larger.

Imagine the chaos, infighting and business uncertainty facing Britain come the start of the next session with May still as PM?

It does not bear thought, let alone scrutiny.

This Government will collapse just as rapidly as business confidence.

Britain will close for business.

Yet there is eleventh hour hope even now. A proposal of no-confidence led by an independent MP , Brighton’s own Caroline Lucas perhaps, with widespread Conservative abstentions from the likes of Ken Clarke, Boris Johnson, Nicky Morgan, Jacob ReesMogg, Anna Soubry et all, would bring this structure built on sand, this House of Cards, tumbling thankfully to where it should be, dead and buried.

These decent Conservatives owe this to Britain and to our very Parliament itself.

To paraphrase Gaitskill: “Fight, fight and fight again for the Parliament we love”.

Do the deed and let us move on to a better Government that can get things moving again.

Keith Jago
Uplands Road, Brighton