Thursday, 11 July 2024

horsemouth's golden notebook (start as you mean to go on)

'this election was bent....' - mark francois, former minister and chair of the european research group (who was unable to vote in the election for the new chair of the 1922 committee.)

oh you beauties!

first day back and it looks like the tories have already fucked up the election of the person responsible for overseeing the election of the new conservative party leader (and thus the person most able to stop the party activists having a big/ any say in it). 

only 61 out of the 121 conservative MPs got to vote. (the rest were given the wrong time or perhaps weren't bothered). horsemouth would point out that there's not that many of them left - only two of the previous 1922 committee for example - so it should have been a lot easier to get around everybody. 

there is a certain irony if tory mps have been victims of er. voter suppression

start as you mean to go on says horsemouth. 

horsemouth is attempting to refuel, once he's refuelled normal service will be resumed. 

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it's the morning. and what a beautiful sunny morning it is. horsemouth has just been out to water the garden (but it had rained overnight). instead he moved a bag of corn into the shed - carefully, he's not interested in putting his back out. the runner beans and the peas seem to be on their way. the spinach and the cabbages are good. he can see that the beetroot and the carrots will come. it's all looking pretty good (but not as good as it used to look when his dad did it).

so the 25th housing minister in 25 years (matthew pennycook - who?). the overall responsibility with the (doubtless very busy) angela rayner. ed milliband (gromit) at the department of energy security and net zero. starmer and streeting (beavis and butthead) in the top jobs further privatising the NHS (that'll work look at the water industry). 




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