It's Thursday night but I am back from delightful Shropshire. I have only had a chance to skim some of the comments and apart from Bob and 'JK' conducting a gunfight at the 'Not-so-OK Corral' you all seem to have behaved yourselves.
However, I must begin with a fairly hefty mea culpa which will contradict an offer I made last year to Ms. Amber Rudd MP for her to have the honour of bearing my babies. At the time, she was Minister for the Environment and had made suggestions that subsidies for so-called sun panels and all those ghastly windmills that litter the countryside (although not many to be seen in Shropshire) should be slashed. That seemed to me at the time to be a good enough qualification for her to bear my seed although I'm not sure exactly what the outcome was because it has faded from the news.
Anyway, tonight she was on the 'telly' as part of an EU referendum debate and I was sorry to see that she was all in favour of the rotten, corrupt edifice. Perhaps more dispiriting was that she came across as an intensely dislikeable woman with the manners of a fishwife and the brain of an amoeba! Consequently, my previous offer has been withdrawn and it is absolutely no good her sending me begging letters asking me to change my mind!
No time for more at the moment and tomorrow morning I am assured by the 'Memsahib' that I have a list of duties to perform which means that I will not be able to sneak up here to the attic to bore you regale you with on this, that and the other until later in the morning.
IMHO, David, none of the reasons you offered necessitated your withdrawal of your offer. The only valid reason would be a low-quality bosom. A man must have some standards (perhaps I presume too much?).
Posted by: TheBigHenry | Friday, 10 June 2016 at 00:26
"an intensely dislikeable woman with the manners of a fishwife and the brain of an amoeba"
You expected more from a professional politician?
Posted by: AussieD | Friday, 10 June 2016 at 04:55
Alas, Henry, my eyes never wandered to her bosom, they were transfixed on her huge mouth through which she fog-horned utter tripe mixed with personal, not political, attacks on Boris. Ghastly woman!
Well, AussieD, there were two ladies on the Brexit side who were calm, thoughtful and made their points without personal attacks on their opponents.
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 10 June 2016 at 08:12
I believe the promise to cut windmill subsidies was watered down under a barrage of self-interested whinging from the renewables "industry".
Their latest brainwave is that we should continue to pay them subsidies but call them something else. This is on the grounds that reliable generators get subsidies too. Of course they conveniently forget that the only reason reliables need subsidising is so that they can compete with the subsidies being paid to the windmills.
The whole thing is beyond insane, and you can't trust these people any further than you could throw them.
But you knew that.
Posted by: Andrew Duffin | Friday, 10 June 2016 at 12:22
Sadly, Andrew, I did know that!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 10 June 2016 at 16:29