My colleague George Eaton has already highlighted the obscene comparison made by the Tory MP David Wilshire. Just to remind you, he said:
“The witch hunt against MPs in general will undermine democracy. It will weaken parliament — handing yet more power to governments. Branding a whole group of people as undesirables led to Hitler’s gas chambers.”
Cameron has given his response:
“It’s a frankly ludicrous thing to say and I think he should withdraw it. MPs have got to understand that the public do not have confidence in our expenses system. The expenses system needs to change, MPs need to understand that. People don’t want to hear MPs sounding off like that.”
As others including Paul Waugh have pointed out, this is notably incomplete. Two questions for Cameron:
1. Does he accept that this is a trivialisation of the Holocaust?
2. Will he withdraw the whip if Wilshire refuses to retract?
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