![]() ![]() The Tory peer argued migrant Channel crossings were “an acute problem” that needed addressing, and said the Illegal Migration Bill was "part of the solution". However, Tory former chancellor Norman Lamont has warned against cramming legislation aimed at tackling the small boats crisis with so many “loopholes, exemptions and get-out-clauses” that it becomes unworkable. We should not flatter totalitarians by imitating their addictions." "Surely breaking the law should be the last resort. The independent crossbench peer said: "To reform the law, they want to break the law, surely a most extraordinary proposition, particularly to the revising chamber. Referring to Home Secretary Suella Braverman's comment that she is unable to say whether the Bill is compatible with the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), he said that the government "should not get away with" breaching its international obligations. ![]() "It victimises the vulnerable, and if we enact it, the country breaks its commitments and trashes its traditions."Īnd top KC Lord Carlile of Berriew accused the government of "deliberately breaking the law". He warned the Bill would "disarm our diplomacy" by making it difficult to "remonstrate with rule breakers", and said: "In almost 20 years here, I don’t think I can recall a more disreputable Bill than this one. "How utterly ashamed I believe Churchill would be today at this Bill," he added.Ĭrossbencher and former ambassador Lord Kerr of Kinlochard said: "We’re being asked to agree to a blatant repudiation of our commitments under the. He said it would be "more suited to a party of extremists than the party that saw one of its greatest leaders, Winston Churchill, amongst the architects of the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, and the European Convention on Human Rights." The great fool is he in whom we cannot tell which is the conscious and which the unconscious humour we laugh with him and laugh at him at the same time.The House of Lords has spent the afternoon discussing the government's controversial Illegal Migration Bill, and many peers lined up to condemn it.įormer EastEnders actor and MEP Lord Cashman described the Bill as a "thoroughly reprehensible piece of legislation". Nor is it necessary that our pleasure in fools (or at least in great and godlike fools) should be merely satiric or cruel. It might be better, perhaps, to lay the stress upon the word “gladly”, and make our familiarity with fools a delight, and almost a dissipation. We always lay the stress on the word "suffer", and interpret the passage as one urging resignation. There is an apostolic injunction to suffer fools gladly. ![]() Chesterton commented on the interpretation of St. In his highly regarded early literary biography of Charles Dickens, G.K. Fulford goes on to note with some irony the ready use-the glad suffering-of fools by Shakespeare, who elevated their roles, admittedly non-Pauline, throughout his literary corpus. Īs has been noted by Robert Fulford, a columnist from The National Post who collected many instances of the phrase's late 20th and early 21st century usage, it generally appears in the negative, e.g., in obituaries with a variety of connotations or as a cliché of intellectuals in reference to one another, frequently to explain or justify ornery or cantankerous behavior the combined effect of these appearances is a broadening of meaning from the apparent original sarcasm of Saint Paul. masquerading" in 2 Corinthians 11:13) with the Corinthians' possible rejection (non-welcome) of the message of this, his letter to them. The full meaning of Paul's use of the term "fool" in the original passage is complex and subtle, and the term appears repeatedly in the Chapter to develop the author's theme however, it appears clear that the intended meaning of the phrase was as sarcasm, juxtaposing welcomes given to rival itinerant teachers in Corinth (branded as "false apostles. (2006), as "to become angry with people you think are stupid". The full verse of the original source of the idiom, 2 Corinthians 11:19 ( KJV), reads "For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise." The New International Version states "You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise!" In its current usage, the meaning of the negative, not to suffer fools gladly, has been stated by the Cambridge Idiom Dictionary, 2nd Ed. Suffer fools gladly is a well-known phrase in contemporary use, first coined by Saint Paul in his second letter to the Church at Corinth ( chapter 11).
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