Heartlessly stolen from Iain Dale‘s site, which is normally not nearly salacious enough for the likes of me. I gather I’m only tolerated there because people are just waiting breathlessly for me and Verity to get into some kind of idiological catfight to the death. T’would be unmissable indeed, but I think we’re both too smart for that.
In any case, here’s the story, emphasis mine. To pare even a word from this telling is sacrilege, but copyright is copyright, alas; it is in its way a perfect little fable of modern right-wing urbanity. Click the link above for the original.
I am delighted to see that at least some traditions don’t change in the good old Tory Party. I think it was Lord Curzon who was introduced to the delights of public transport in the 1920s for the first time…as he paid his fare he said to the driver of the Number 24, “now, take me to 23 Eaton Square, there’s a good chap.”
Following in this fine tradition the resplendent Eurosceptic MP Bill Cash also got on a Number 24 this week and proceeded to ask the driver to wait a couple of minutes for some friends who were having difficulty with the ticket machine outside the Garrick Theatre. My witness to the ensuing events tells me that Mr Cash became more than a little exasperated when the driver of the bus explained that he most certainly could not do as requested and closed the doors. Cash stood in the way but the doors were too strong for him. “I demand you stop this bus now,” spluttered the hapless parliamentarian, but to no avail…
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Try as I might I just can’t get to adoring Iain Dale the way others seem to. To me he’s like the yappy little dog that everyone coos over and yappy little dogs annoy me. And that go at lone parents annoyed me too. GIT! Smug overpaid gits the lot of ’em. If you have a catfight with Verity please tell me, I’m broke and can sell tickets.
I’m so way broker than you though. If I had kids I’d have long since put them on the street to pay for my book-buying habit.
I don’t always agree with Iain, but I do think I’d like him in person. Is he a bit prissy, and proudly so? Sure, but I get along with prissy people: I’m CANADIAN! We practically invented it. He’s very party line and mainstream to me, and I can get along with people like that. I didn’t think his remarks about single parents were personal at all; as far as I could see he stuck to what the research reported, and the research reports what it will report. If you’ve got other figures, post them, and realize all the while that statistics apply to groups, not to individuals. That something is statistically likely doesn’t mean it’s inevitable for your family.
Sehr geEhrte RegenCoaster
I am apprehensive about posting any Comment on a Lady who well-merits an Invitation to Iain & Guido’s party and may (for all I know) have received such a coveted invitation
But perhaps Philipa might think more gently about Mr Dale – he is certainly not a git – give him more credit for putting up so tolerantly with so many irritating Kommenters, of whom your obedient servant is just one
Your obedient servant etc
G Eagle
G Eagle – a most pertinent point and I stand corrected, I too am one of his contributors and he has always published my comments.
Penitent poster Pippy.