Monday, 24 March 2014

A cardinal sinner

Well, aren't you going to give your mate a few tips?

Walking along Wembley Way. On our left, the manic street preacher. Microphone. Amp and speaker in a shoulder-sling...

“...and God is...”

Here there was a pause, and he genuinely started to sound like the rubbish preacher in The Life of Brian just before the gourd and the sandal bit.

“...like the referee in the game of rugby you're going to see...”

Right. So. Either our referee will have a long grey beard and be omnipotent, or God depends on his touch judges and telly replay guy, and has a watch on both wrists, and a whistle.

On our right, four blokes, one in fancy dress. Roman Catholic Cardinal fancy dress.

“Oy. Mate. Over here” (a lot of pointing).

(To the Cardinal) “'aint you going to give your mate there a few tips?”


No books for you, you old lag

A nasty move by a nasty piece of work. Chris Grayling represents Epsom and Ewell, seventeen miles from Westminster. He has a taxpayer-paid flat in Pimlico despite having a home in his constituency, and two buy to let properties in Wimbledon. His expenses fiddling score was an impressive £125,000.00. He's the justice secretary (or something like that, whatever one of those does).

Actually, whatever one of those does includes stopping prisoners' families ability to send them books to read. Not just copies of the bible hollowed out to accommodate a pistol or some breaking out gear or some drugs. Just books. Like to read.

Chris Grayling has a degree in...history. What is it about having a history degree that makes you an absolute git?

He's written and published some books himself, including The Bridgewater Heritage: The Story of Bridgewater Estates (catchy title there, Chris) published by...er...Bridgewater Estates PLC. Then there's Holt's: The Story of Joseph Holt (forming a pattern here, d'ya think?) published by...er...Joseph Holt PLC (yep, definitely a pattern forming).

Chris, is it because no prisoner ever reached for anything you've written from the library trolley that you're so bitter and nasty?















Or is it because you look like a smug egg?

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