Esther McVey used a poem about the Holocaust to criticise proposals for tougher rules on outdoor smoking.
  • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
    4•2 months ago

    Health Secretary Wes Streeting responded to her post: "No, I do not think the post-war confessional of Martin Niemöller about the silent complicity of the German intelligentsia and clergy in the Nazi rise to power is pertinent to a Smoking Bill that was in your manifesto and ours to tackle one of the biggest killers.

    “Get a grip.”