Tuesday 27th
October
The fallout from yesterday’s
dramatic blocking of Tax Credit cuts by the House of Lords is in full swing.
Gideon Osborne is wandering from news camera to news camera trying to looking
like a sixth form swat who’d just been given detention, and in the manner of
such smart alecs is raging at the injustice which has surely landed them in it,
rather than focussing on his own lack of judgement.
But spare a thought for the no
doubt exhausted Jacob Rees-Mogg, who has been speaking of this grand
constitutional upheaval for a week now. At least, I think that’s what he’s
saying. It sort of gets lost in a blaze of dates and names. He’s like a proto
version of the Hulk. When he gets angry, he turns into a grey giant, lecturing
on obscure history.
No doubt last night, he retired
to home in and was greeted by his nanny bearing a mug of Ovaltine.
“I don’t understand it, nanny” he
says. “Why can’t ordinary people understand the enormous violation of the
privilege of the House of Commons, established in 1678? It speaks of the execrable
state of our education system that the common man cannot converse on this. The
sooner we carpet the provinces with Grammar Schools, the better.
“I fear the repetition of Earl
Grey’s attempt to create more peers. He’s my favourite Prime Minister, Earl
Grey. Such a fine name for a politician.”
“I don’t know poppet,” replies
nanny. “Does this measure not attract the ire of 1702 resolution, codified as
Standing Order 53?”
“Don’t be silly, nanny! Of course
it doesn’t. Even a street urchin could see that. Have you been at the grog
again?”
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