Heseltine was the best leader the Tories, and the country, never had. If he had been chosen, we would not be in the mess we are now.

I met him once, and integrity shone from him like a beacon of hope. I don't think he is personally bitter. He is very sad, disillusioned and disappointed at the direction taken by his Party and the consequences for our country.

Him, Major and Blair stand miles above anything we now have. The current lot are minnows in a sea full of sharks. Out of their depth, in the wrong kind of water, with the tide against them, just hoping that something turns up to save them.

Heseltine was the best leader the Tories, and the country, never had. If he had been chosen, we would not be in the mess we are now.

I met him once, and integrity shone from him like a beacon of hope. I don't think he is personally bitter. He is very sad, disillusioned and disappointed at the direction taken by his Party and the consequences for our country.

Him, Major and Blair stand miles above anything we now have. The current lot are minnows in a sea full of sharks. Out of their depth, in the wrong kind of water, with the tide against them, just hoping that something turns up to save them.

As Heseltine has, like me, always understood the need for us to participate in the European project, there was nil chance of him ever being in favour of Brexit.

Heseltine is a long-term strategic thinker with clarity of purpose etched into everything he does.

If he was for Brexit he wouldn't be Heseltine. The two are mutually exclusive.

Depends on what, but many are, in Jim Royle's memorable quip, "not worth the steam off my p*ss".

Those who put their own interests first because they feared UKIP, failed to do their primary duty of using their conscience to determine the best interests of their constituents, if they believed leaving was a mistake. Many come in this spineless category.

People like Jacob Rees-Mogg, Bill Cash, Mark Francois, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, etc etc ought to be locked in the Tower until convicted as traitors.

On the subject of locking people in the tower they could be joined by the traitors that call themselves British Citizens who waved the EU flag in front of the Houses Of Parliament or at events such as the Proms. Truly despicable people

Kinhell! So if you get locked in the tower for waving a flag of a club you have been a member of for the past 40 years, how would you deal with the government carving up £14 Billion among themselves and their friends , that was destined for the nhs? Land of dope and tory! (Nothing personal ghost-just had to throw it in!)

Then that's your personal opinion and your problem to overcome. It's neither against the law, nor offends most people.

Better flag waving than gun waving, don't you think? Peaceful protest is to be encouraged.

I know it's not personal it is only words over a messageboard so don't worry about offending me

Would you describe the EU as a club? It's a far bigger institution and I would never say I was a member of that or anything political.

Pushing people into poverty is economically illiterate.

We should not be doing this in 2021 with its history of failure, what is the economy for if not our people.

One thing we could actually do is re-direct QE to poorer families, giving them money to spend and stimulating demand, Keynesian theory.

QE has not been causing inflation this time.

Forget high wages, it means rising inflation prices and therefore uncompetitive, unless you could make huge productivity gains at which I'm afraid we are spectacularly bad.

The biggest problem we have is not being in the single market imo, we are no longer competitive with europe.

Maintaining an empirical fantasy in the South China Sea, ill-thought out projects like HS2, corruption, still lords and ladies and serfs, and brexit itself which is clearly going to be ruinous.

Looking at Tony Robinson re-visiting Suez last night I was struck how similar the circumstances are now.

In that case the economy could no longer bear the cost of the war, but we haven't really learnt its lesson well enough.

A Prime Minister, Eden, vain and totally uncomprehending of the real world situation, blustering and deceiving everybody, who does he remind you of?

Not true at all.

As there is no conflict in being both British and in favour of the EU, nor is there anything wrong in demonstrating that.

Should the Scots, Welsh or Cornish not wave their flags? They feel dual loyalties.