Marina Hyde’s article in which she comments on Ed Davey’s decision to boycott the king’s banquet fiasco for Trump (Boycott the banquet, send a tweet. But ending the horror in Gaza still relies on the worst people in the world, 29 August) is puzzling. On the one hand Marina, quite rightly, went to town on the 222 days of Trump’s presidency, castigating him for failing to fulfil his 53 promises to stop the Ukraine war. Yet when an MP, Davey, who is in a position to make an impact, decides to make a stand, albeit on his lonesome, she says the gesture “feels one rung above a tweet”. Clever and witty for sure, but I believe that Davey’s intentions are sincere and well-intentioned.
I suspect that this “gesture” would be supported by the majority of his constituents, the Lib Dem voters (including the 35% who wouldn’t recognise him) and, indeed, a high proportion of the general public. I wonder, if more of his parliamentary colleagues (from all political shades) had joined him in the boycott, would his efforts have been dismissed?
