First of all there has been the abysmal sight over the last few days of this Old Etonian ducking and diving his way through the incoming smelly stuff as he tried, and failed, to explain fully his personal interest in his late father's off-shore trust fund. To be fair, which I am not inclined to be, I can't see anything much wrong in any of it but Dave's oily slipperiness when the story broke tells you all you need to know about this chancer. I would suggest to you all that he needs a slap!
Second of all, there is his decision to spend £9 million of my hard-earned dosh - oh, alright, it's not all mine but some of it damn well is just as some of it is yours! - on printing and distributing pro-EU leaflets to every house in the land. And just to rub your noses in it, the printing company is German-owned and in frequent receipt of large EU printing contracts. I take this very personally because I have, and still am, tramping the length and breadth of, er, downtown Milborne Port delivering leaflets on behalf of VOTE LEAVE which are paid for by voluntary contributions from, amongst others, me, actually! Incidentally, I do wish the good people of Milborne Port would cut down on the length of their driveways because making my way from street to front door adds another 30% to my total tramping distance. Now, if I was doing this 'oooop north' in Coronation Street, for example, where you get nice long rows of terraced cottages, life would be much easier - but I digress - again!
Third of all, our splendid Dutch neighbours have shown us the way to bitch-slap a government. They have just held a referendum, brought about by petition, on the 'treaty' stitched up by 'Junck the Drunk' and his over-weaning apparat, between the EU and the Ukraine. They booted the entire thing into touch by a huge majority and by way of celebration they all threw their Dutch caps into the air - well, not really but you know what I mean!
Anyway, your chance is coming to give 'Oily Dave' and 'Junck the Drunk' a right good spanking. All you have to do is VOTE LEAVE!
I have thought of the perfect solution to the EU problem which I have already imparted to my not so best friend John Redwood MP who consistently does not publish all my comments on his blogs. Something about being controversial and incendiary but me thinks because it is because he nicks what I have written and uses it in his next blog. Clever though it is hard to spot what he has nicked but I know it is there.
Anyway my solution. The EU and the common market should be parted. Let the EU get on with it's union thingy and let those stupid enough to join in get on with it. Set up another body along the long lines of the WTO to administer the common market. Simple. No doubt you are kicking yourself for not thinking of it first.
Posted by: Antisthenes | Friday, 08 April 2016 at 09:58
No, no, no, Antis, no halfway houses, we must kill it ALL, stamp on it, set it on fire and then put the fire out in the usual gentlemanly way!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 08 April 2016 at 11:20
And sow the ruins with salt!
Posted by: Oswald Thake | Friday, 08 April 2016 at 12:10
Apropos 'The Noble Revolt,' am getting on well with it. Mind you, it is a period I know something about thanks to the late Dame Veronica Wedgewood's 'The King's Peace' and 'The King's War.' The characters in the drama are familiar to me. Not nearly as dry as it looks; some of the asides are quite sardonic!
It's been a revelation to me just how much political power the English nobles still had; I've taught the Whig/Marxist view of History, dominant since Macaulay and most recently torpedoed by the late Professor Butterfield. But I digress...
Posted by: Oswald Thake | Friday, 08 April 2016 at 12:24
I have long thought that stupidity is infectious!
Posted by: Backofanenvelope | Friday, 08 April 2016 at 12:25
I was of the opinion that all true Englishmen thought David Cameron to be of stirling character, strong of principle and a champion of British independence and culture. Just like his predecessor Tony Blair.
Or am I mistaken?
As an aside I have just re-read George Shipway's excellent novel "The Chilian Club". Perhaps more of a "how to manual" than novel.
Posted by: AussieD | Friday, 08 April 2016 at 13:16
"set it on fire and then put the fire out in the usual gentlemanly way!" I can help, I can help!!
Posted by: Whitewall | Friday, 08 April 2016 at 13:17
Oswald, I'm glad you approve. I am the opposite to you (yes, I know, what a relief!) in that my ignorance of the period is abysmal. What a delicious stew it is of religion, politics, personalities, jocks v. English v. Irish, the struggle between crown and parliament and the inexorable rise of the Commons. My only deep regret is that 'our Will' didn't live through that period, it would have produced at least six more plays!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 08 April 2016 at 13:20
Personally I think that Cameron has done nothing illegal here but I am cheered up by the fact that the fucker gets what he deserves by introducing tax after tax and minimising his own tax payments while pointing at others who do a perfectly legal thing as if they have just murdered someone. I find the whole thing karmic.
Posted by: Lord T | Friday, 08 April 2016 at 13:21
If I ask you five times would you please be a hypocrite and confess to having a nice little offshore fund?
Sigh, sort of yes and no. Unfortunately it was Windsor Grammar School, not Eton, for me. Those squeaky floorboards hammered down atop those stashes of motor trader's "offshore" readies couldn't quite stretch to 40 grand a year.
Never mind, the lunch break and after school hours fist fights on Eton bridge meant at some point I probably landed one on BoJo, Dim Dave, or Georgie-Boy's snooty hooter - or maybe all of them!
That's worth more than 5 years at 40 grand per annum in my book.
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Friday, 08 April 2016 at 19:10
Oh God, SoD's in 'Czech-land' and obviously the slivovitz is doing the rounds!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 08 April 2016 at 19:57