As I am permitted to ask in such terms, being, in
the words of a once-frequent contributor below the line, "the Mulatto
Hitler" to Robert Mugabe's "Black Hitler". He famously thought
that "the conservative Colbert" was a reference to The Colbert
Report, and he used to compare me to Mussolini under various spellings, all
of them incorrect.
Berlusconi is factually accurate that Mussolini's
regime was not initially anti-Semitic, and only became so under pressure from
Hitler. He might have added that in May 1940, Churchill had been all ready to
give Gibraltar, Malta, Suez, Somaliland, Kenya and Uganda to Mussolini.
My mind is now on that strange little man, by
which I mean neither Berlusconi nor Mussolini, nor even Churchill, because we
are coming up to the tenth anniversary of his permanent exclusion of me from
any hope of entering the parliamentary process. People who say that I ought to
be in it, blame him.
A fat lot of good it did him then, or has done
him since, or will ever do him, I am pleased to say. Then, now and forever, he
has to console him everything that it is within his capacity to appreciate: his
very latest haircut, his encycolpedic knowledge of football and of pop music,
and so on. Bless him.
But anyway, to business. Adam Afriyie does not
appear to have rebelled against Cameron on anything important, if on anything
at all.
So, why bother with him?
He was so triumphant when you were expelled from the Labour party and he has never recovered from the fact that it only made you into a legend more influential that you were before. Ridiculous little man.
ReplyDeleteMy personal favourite is when he suggests you might re-join as if you would have any reason to, but "we would never let him (you) back at the level he left at." What a parish councillor? That was all the party ever gave you.
You trebled your vote for that as an Independent. He nearly lost his parish seat that same night, he has since given it up, he no longer holds any public office and he will never hold another one.
The absolute cracker though was when he, the press officer, put out a press release announcing himself as the next MP and the party imposed a women only short list the next day, the day his announcement was published. Laughing at him is what makes life worth living.
Good to know you're not bitter at all.
ReplyDeleteHeavens, no. Unlike some...
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