lily-livered
Hoist the mainsail and shiver me timbers, are they joining the Pirate Party?
The saying came from Macbeth, or at least that’s the first recorded use.
But pirates are cool 😉
Socialists Penny Wrout, Fliss Premru and Claudia Turbet-Delof held a press conference outside the east London borough’s town hall.
Imagine being this self-important.
Why shouldn’t three elected politicians make a statement to the local press?
Socialists Penny Wrout, Fliss Premru and Claudia Turbet-Delof held a press conference outside the east London borough’s town hall.
Ms Wrout said they were leaving the party due to “the inadequacies about Labour’s national policies to address problems we have got at the moment but it’s also, crucially, about Labour’s lily-livered stand from the beginning on Gaza.”
She said Hackney Council needs “to act now” to sell its shares in an Israeli arms company “before the Tory government makes it illegal for them to do that.”
Good for them, but it won’t be enough.
