That is the question of the day for you to answer whilst I tootle off to Berkshire to celebrate a friend's 40th wedding anniversary.
First, there is Ed 'Cain' Miliband who, and I congratulate him for this, has loaded up the Labour party in an old charabanc whose steering gear is so misaligned that it is going round in circles. No one, least of all Labour supporters, has the least idea where he is trying to go but they all share the deep suspicion that in practice it would be more or less the same direction as 'Field Marshal' Cameron. As always, it is the little things that give them away. 'Cain' is your archetypal 'modern man' who does not believe in all that marriage rubbish but so skin-deep are his convictions that once he feels the slightest breeze of condemnation which might, he fears, frighten the voters, off he trots to the Registry Office and has himself hitched up. Truly and utterly pathetic!
Then today I hear from another Ed, this one is 'Ed the Malignant', he of the sinister blinky eyes. His wheeze of the week is to raise a special tax aimed at bankers' bonuses, the results of which, he would have us believe, would go towards relieving 'youf' unemployment. If anyone outside of a psychiatric unit for those with learning difficulties believes that, they should be locked up for their own good. If, in fact, 'Ed the Malignant' really gave a flying fig for 'youf' unemployment he would propose an immediate cut in welfare payments such that the idle yobs might consider it worthwhile getting out of bed on a Monday morning and looking for work. As for the bankers, they always have been and will forever be streets ahead of the likes of political spivs like Ed Balls, and his stupid tax would raise 0% of 0 whilst probably leading to the shrinking of the financial services in the City which in turn would lead, inevitably, to even more 'youf' unemployment.
As for the redoubtable 'Field Marshal', busy building model airplanes in his bunker, can anyone assure me that he does not possess the name of 'Edward' somewhere on his birth cerficate?
Ed Heath.
Posted by: dearieme | Sunday, 05 June 2011 at 12:25
Don't overlook such American ones as Ed Kennedy and John Eds.
Posted by: dearieme | Sunday, 05 June 2011 at 12:26
Ed Heath - of course! And Ed Kennedy - natch! But John Eds? Who he? ED.
Posted by: David Duff | Sunday, 05 June 2011 at 20:13
John Edwards, sometime VP candidate for the Democrats and contender to be presidential candidate. Currently under charge for using his campaign funds to buy the silence of the girl he was impregnating while his wife was dying of cancer.
Posted by: dearieme | Sunday, 05 June 2011 at 22:36
Oh, I see, that one! Yes, indeed, sometimes there are no words . . .
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 06 June 2011 at 08:58
A horse is a horse, of course, of course, unless the horse, is ..... Mr Ed.
Neeeeiiiighhgh!!!!
Posted by: Sassyandra | Tuesday, 07 June 2011 at 00:47
Mr Ed, the Talking Horse? He was intelligent.
Posted by: jameshigham | Tuesday, 07 June 2011 at 06:36
Certainly more intelligent than the two I picked!
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 07 June 2011 at 09:21