Alan Matthews 🇬🇧 🇪🇺May 13, 2023
RT Tees Valley Monitor #BenHouchen
The last time was in January in response to an op-ed #SimonClarkeMP wrote in the Times to 're-establish the facts about the #Teesside Freeport'. He was angry that day too:
https://www.teesvalleymonitor.com/simon-clarke-mp-sees-red-over-marine-die-off-claims
Simon Clarke MP Sees Red over Marine Die-off Claims

Simon Clarke MP is angry about the coverage being given to those who are campaigning to have capital dredging in the Tees stopped. He uses a comment piece in The Times to demonise those he sees as the opponents of the free port development, omitting a number of key facts in the process, while distorting others.

Show threadHeskieMar 13, 2023

@13sarahmurphy
Interesting take on #SimonClarkeMP

".... one who intuitively understands the value of fostering cynicism. He may be an also-ran in the Tory Party, but he serves its purposes well. His comments here may seem stupid but look more closely and we see the reality behind them. That reality is not stupidity. It exists to promote bigotry, to undermine respect for our democratic institutions and processes. It is not stupidity, but menace."

https://northeastbylines.co.uk/the-tories-the-taliban-and-the-origins-of-totalitarianism-the-bizarre-worldview-of-simon-clarke-mp/

The Tories, the Taliban and the Origins of Totalitarianism: the bizarre worldview of Simon Clarke MP

In Clarke’s world, ‘the hard Left’ appears to be anyone in the Labour Party.

North East Bylines