He so stitched up the Cabinet that none dared challenge him fearful of being cast into outer darkness and impoverishment, with the loss of their Special Responsibility Allowance. You would have thought that Tim not so short of a penny or two would care less about losing the relatively small stipend and more about ridding residents of Cockle the overstayer. Sad really that filthy lucre counts for so much.
So what to do?
The Dame knows that back benchers are fast getting fed up with a leader well past his sell by date but have no idea about how to become a force to be reckoned with. Well, being the fount of all wisdom the Dame has some thoughts.... yet nothing too original.
Down the road at Westminster, Tory backbenchers have a rather effective constraint against the over arching ambitions of greedy leaders; it's called the 1922 Committee and the Cabinet takes it very seriously.
The Dame knows that back benchers are fast getting fed up with a leader well past his sell by date but have no idea about how to become a force to be reckoned with. Well, being the fount of all wisdom the Dame has some thoughts.... yet nothing too original.
Down the road at Westminster, Tory backbenchers have a rather effective constraint against the over arching ambitions of greedy leaders; it's called the 1922 Committee and the Cabinet takes it very seriously.
So come you RBKC backbenchers! Do something positive. You have nothing to lose but your chains and you will go down in Rotten Borough as the "Cockleshell Heroes"!
Dare I say that the people of Paris (round about1789) had a very effective way of dealing with "the over arching ambitions of greedy leaders".
ReplyDeleteSad to say that times have changed and it would be completely out of the question to follow their example now. Ho Hum. I suppose we can still dream