Sorry for my unwarranted absence yesterday but I became involved in a gardening task that, like Tony Blair's wars, escalated! My own garden (I am delighted to say) is the size of a postage stamp but our communal gardens are fairly large by comparison. Yesterday I undertook to power-wash the flag-stones that form the path round the lawn. I had forgotten that I had changed my machine since the last time I did it. The old one weighed a ton because it had a hefty electric motor in it and produced a blast of water that would not only take the skin off your arm, it might easily take off your entire arm! I replaced it with a much lighter machine (and cheaper!) and to be honest, give me a few pints and I could piss harder than it can blow water! Consequently what should have been a 2 - 3 hour job lasted all day. Staggering indoors I did suggest to the Memsahib that she might like to dust the cobwebs off the baby oil and give me an all-over massage. I ducked just in time!
It's an ill wind and all that sort of thing so being away from the 'telly' for most of the day did at least spare me from seeing too much of chubby-cheeks Clegg and that pathetic, puffed-up bunch of middle-class semi-socialists 'strutting their hour upon the stage' at whatever God forsaken dump is hosting their exercise in oxygen wastage. They truly are an example of the semi-educated en masse. It takes one to know one but many of us who are, ourselves, semi-educated at least have the humility to acknowledge that we probably wouldn't be much good at running the country. The Cleggites, on the other hand, are so swollen with the semi-education they received which has, just, raised them higher than dimwit status that they now believe they can run the world. The most dispiriting thing of it all is that 'Dim Dave' and most of his ruling so-called-Tory claque are all 'Cleggites' at heart.
What an opportunity Cameron missed before the last election! The country was so fearful of Brown & Balls, the Brokers Men (that is, the men who will make you go broke) that he could have won an outstanding victory based on a programme of Austrian school economics and carried out another, and even greater, Thatcherite revolution. Of course, part of his problem is that he hardly knows what the Austrian school is and, given his recently revealed riding proclivities, he probably thinks it's that training school for white horses in Vienna!
In the immortal words of the late, great Terry Thomas, "What an absolute shower"!
ADDITIONAL: I have just read this at The Coffee House - says it all!
The motion passed by Liberal Democrat conference this morning means that the party is neither supporting nor opposing the Health Bill. The rebels having lost the vote on whether or not to debate their ‘Drop the Bill’ motion, but managed to amend the so-called Shirley Williams’ motion to remove the line calling on their peers to vote for it.
Flagging stones???!!!
Does that mean the rocks in the UK get tired?
(Lucky you David, this'll be my last comment for awhile. But, neverfear, I shall return.
Posted by: JK | Sunday, 11 March 2012 at 16:51
JK, you're getting as good as DM at spotting my, er, deliberate mistakes! I think the "flagging" was a Freudian slip meant to refer to me.
Posted by: David Duff | Sunday, 11 March 2012 at 17:18