Flimsy-flamsy Yap-yaps
Powell himself is sticking firmly to his self- imposed task of establishing a secure domin- ance in the House of Commons. His work in the committee stages of the Immigration Bill is admired by men of all political posi- tions. He is becoming regarded among the professionally most dispassionate observers of the parliamentary scene as the most for- midable parliamentary practitioner of recent, that is, post-war years. When lightweight poodles of the Prime Minister, like Conserva- tive party chairman Peter Thomas, and the even flimsier member for Woking, Cranley Onslow, yap-yap at Powell for making the perfectly correct observation that this government (like the last) has attempted to trick the public over the Common Market issue, they damage no one's political pros- pects but their own.
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