God knows, the Conservative Party has done nothing but treat its own MPs appallingly for the last two years, and its leadership is obviously a disgrace, but what Louise Mensch has done – forcing a by-election which the Tories have no hopes of winning - is about as low as even a politician can go. I don’t mind MPs voting against their own party on grounds of conscience when that party has betrayed its own principles, or is about to introduce a piece of spectacularly ill-conceived legislation. And I wouldn’t condemn an MP for resigning on the same grounds. But throwing your toys out of the pram because it has dawned on you that your attempt to use relentless self-publicity in order to gain high office has failed dismally – and then claiming that it’s for family reasons (yeah, whatever) – well, that’s truly odious.
As for that wretched apology for a human being Nick Clegg announcing that his seedy band of bitter misfits will scupper proposed parliamentary boundary changes – which, after all, are designed to redress some of that unfairness the posturing ninny’s always bleating on about – because Tory MPs won’t support his moronic hodge-podge of ill thought-out House of Lords reform plans… well, if we needed further proof that he was unreliable, self-obsessed, duplicitous, treacherous, petty and ridiculously childish, we now have steaming, foul-smelling mounds of the stuff.
You lost one, you snivelling little git – look at our Olympic athletes (to whom you’ve been cravenly paying homage all week) and learn how to lose with grace and dignity. I would suggest you try to act like more of a mensch – but, in the circumstances, that doesn’t seem appropriate.
(For foreign readers, I should perhaps explain that a twassock refers to someone who manages to be both a twat and a pillock.)
Menschstruation: not available at the wrong time of the electoral timetable.
ReplyDeleteI have passed your name to Polly Toynbee, who has used a special Guardian hot-line to alert the Metropolitan Police's Gender Hate Crime Swift Action Response Unit. Expect a visit.
DeleteThanks so much. The Squad's already been round and cautioned me, I pleaded the Scruton/Moss defence. I claimed it was the asymmetrical design of my Canvey Island flat that made me lose any sense of social and spatial awareness. Fine and 3 weeks Community Service.
ReplyDeleteIn the interests of accuracy, the full name of the Met/Toynbee squad is the Gender Related On-line Notification Fast Action Response Team, I'm still struggling to work out the acronym.
Dave Spart writes ...
Delete... while ex-KCS languishes in a re-education through labour camp Louise Mensch is at last freed from the time-wasting tedium of so-called democratic process in the Westminster palace of charades and can return to writing her searing indictments of the failure of Western society all action is now Stateside where the unreconstructed Mr Mensch continues to peddle the careers of his establishment hyena bands and Occupy Vinyl are organising a day of protest when everyone will be invited to tote their Led Zep albums and Red Hot Chile Peppers and the imperialist Metallica to a bring and burn party on Manhattan Island under the revisionist Statue of so-called Liberty until Mr Mensch understands his job is to stay at home doing the mending and cooking while the revolution proceeds to inevitable victory ...
Good value post. 'Twassock' is a new one on me but I shall treasure it.
ReplyDeleteAnd congratulations to ex-KCS on Speedy Acronym Deployment.