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They'll want to bring back hanging next: What right-wing lunacy is there inside the Conservative
rebels' 'Alternative Queen's Speech'?
Banning burkas, introducing 'Thatcher Day', privatising the BBC and, yes, even reintroducing
the death penalty, the Tory right-wing rebels' 'Alternative Queen's Speech' was as laughable as
it was chilling
Sitting on the front bench throughout the sulphurous proceedings, and looking as though she'd rather
be anywhere else, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers wore a frozen grin on her face. Indeed
at one point, as diehard anti-coalition Tory Peter Bone was announcing his lethally entitled
Prime Minister (Replacement) Bill, the grin morphed briefly into something akin to risus sardonicus,
the facial spasm associated with strychnine poisoning.
Banning the burka, privatising the BBC, bringing back smoking in private clubs, having a referendum
to reverse the law on gay marriage, abolishing non-criminal complaints of sexual harassment,
getting out of the EU, withdrawing from the European Convention of Human Rights, were not even
half of the "Alternative Queen's Speech" unveiled by the rebels on Monday. As the bills - including
the Bone favourite, redesignating the late August Bank Holiday as "Margaret Thatcher Day" have
no chance - for now - of becoming law, Bone has usefully explained that they could instead "help ...
poor old David Cameron" by forming a manifesto of "proper Conservative policies.