I was going to comment on the dire news from Oldham East and Saddleworth but Captain Ranty has done a far better job of it. I reproduce his blog for today in full. I thank him for saying what needed saying and commend you to his further thoughts here.
Captain Ranty penned these words about the 14,718 and has the nerve to call them gibbons. This is a calumny of the first order, a gratuitous slur on that fine upstanding creature, the gibbon. In the great scheme of things, gibbons are many rungs above the Lab voters of OE and S on the evolutionary ladder. The Labour voter is a much, much, much less complex form of life than was previously suspected. They are now thought to inhabit a backwater of evolution somewhere between sand and that black sort of mold stuff that grows on your tile grouting. Scientists believe they have reached the topmost twig on their evolutionary tree and are fated to join nature's abject failures, such as the arboreal hippopotamus, the uncommon cold virus and John Prescott.
There is no hope of redemption for this town. As private Fraser would have it: "We're doomed, all doomed!"
Once again thanks to Cap'n Ranty
THE WORD YOU WERE LOOKING FOR WAS ...... NO!
BB,
ReplyDeleteJust spotted this.
Thanks for the link.
I apologise unreservedly for upsetting any gibbons. You are of course absolutely right: I should have described the retarded 14,718 as pond life. (Which may also be slandering pond life...).
I'm off to link to your blog.
Be well,
CR.