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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