Well dodgy duo....
Some years ago a friend invited the Dame to have a sandwich with Milord Bailey.
Now the old Dame has come across some con merchants but Milordly Bailey is in a class of his own.
For over an hour, he gabbled on in a vain attempt to make himself sound politically plausible: it was just so embarrassing. Soon it became clear that though full of peasant guile he had not one original idea...a sort of Erdogan!
How did he get into the Assembly (where he had a reputation for indolence and a 'no contact' policy with constituents) and the Mayoral nomination?
Blame a couple of East End Etonians....Cameron and Johnson....Bailey's low friends in high places.
These two chancers saw in Shaun Bailey a less polished version of themselves.
He managed to convince the duo he was the real 'black kid from the ghetto' deal.
In reality, he came from a perfectly normal lower middle-class family living in a now £1m house.
Bailey is the best possible reason for now abolishing the Upper House.
Come back Mrs. May - all is forgiven.
ReplyDeleteEMBARRASSING!
ReplyDeleteWe have reached an all time low:-
ReplyDeleteDame Priti Patel,
Sir Jacob Rees Mogg,
and,
Shaun, Baron Bailey.
Emma Dent Coad insulted Shaun Bailey. Boris Johnson ennobled him
ReplyDeleteThe red leather benches await Shaun's posterior. He is now truly noble - aristocratic. Classier than Mrs. Dent Coad.
DeleteCarrie Johnson is a peer's granddaughter. She is classier and more aristocratic than our Emma. Columbus wasn't an aristo.
DeleteBut she's of Medici stock.
DeleteShe has now denied being a descendant of Catherine de Medici - pretentious nonsense. It caused her some difficulty with Comrades Corbyn and Abbott. She must have a lump in her throat at Shaun becoming a Baron.
DeleteI bet Dominic Cummings is enjoying all of this. What a shower on which Boris has chosen to bestow Honours.
ReplyDeleteDear Resplendent Lady, The Dame Hornet of Hornton Street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea,
ReplyDeleteDo you or any of your Hornets know if the Tory Party has any procedures for disqualifying Boris Johnson from standing for parliament everagain just like the Labour Party did with Emma Dent Coad?
I know the Tories prefer to leave selection matters to local Tory Associations but could Conservative Central Office ban Johnson and cease to recognise any Constituency Association that selects him as a parliamentary candidate. I seem to remember the late Baroness Ritchie was involved in selections. She found that gay male candidates had less skeletons in their cupboards than the straight Tory boys.
Perhaps, Gregg Hands MP, Tory Party Chairman, could whisper in the Dame's shell-like and give us the "good oil."
When Johnson was Prime Minister, he expelled Michael Heseltine from the Party over his opposition to Brexit and for saying that he would vote Lib Dem instead of Tory. Heseltine has still not had the Tory Whip restored to him in the Lords. Presumably, if Johnson causes trouble, Sunak could shaft Johnson and ban him from being a Tory Party candidate.
DeleteThat is what any leader of any party would do. Why should Heseltine have had the whip restored. And, no I cannot stand Johnson but attack him for the right reasons
DeleteThe reason I mentioned the Heseltine case was to illustrate that Sunak has the power to shaft Johnson under Tory Party rules.
DeletePutting Bailey in the Lords is such a slap in the face to electors. Bailey will now be able to collect his payoff from Cameron and Johnson. This is substantial. Bailey will doubtless attend every sitting day in the Lords to claim his lifetime £42,000 a year tax free. The political class whine they are treated with contempt. The elevation of Bailey is as good a reason as to why. This is the sort of obliquely corrupt practice the British do so well!.
ReplyDeleteToo true. £42,000 a year for clocking in for fifteen minutes at the House of Lords and clocking out fifteen minutes later every sitting day. Money for old rope just like RBKC Councillors who are all on the gravy train.
DeleteI hear that Afternoon Tea in the House of Lords is on a par with Tea at the Ritz; but subsidised by ours truly.
"Rishi Sunak is under growing pressure to bar Boris Johnson from standing as a Conservative candidate at the next election, as senior Tories accused the former prime minister and his allies of a coordinated attempt to derail the government, writes Michael Savage and Toby Helm.
DeleteAmid anger at Johnson within the party over his explosive departure, in which he said he was only leaving Westminster “for now” and accused a cross-party committee of “egregious bias”, there is now a concerted push among senior Tories to ensure Johnson has no route back to the Commons for the foreseeable future.
One senior member of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, a former backer of Johnson, said it was the clear view among colleagues that he should be blocked from standing for another Tory seat at the next election."
Tory Central HQ has refused to confirm that Johnson will be blocked from standing in Mid-Bedfordshire. The man is not a fit and proper person to stand anywhere. He has denigrated a proper parliamentary process and he should be held in contempt of parliament.
DeleteProtecting arrogant conceited liars is what Conservatives are all about. At least Labour had the guts to shaft Emma Dent Coad for racism to Bailey and Jeremy Corbyn for his unrelenting antisemitism; and support for Putin.
Jewish leaders in Hackney North and Stoke Newington have condemned Diane Abbott MP for the antisemitism implied in her "hierarchy of racism" letter. Labour has not decided if she should be banned. They're no better than the Tories.
ReplyDeleteJulian Posner
The Conservative ultra right is just as bad, crazy and dangerous as the Labour hard left if not worse
ReplyDeleteI agree. But that is no reason for Labour's failure to shaft Diane Abbott MP. Corbyn of the hard left did not see off Emma Dent Coad. Starmer, the moderate, arranged for her to be disqualified from standing as an MP.
DeleteThis peerage was a political deal. The Conservative Party needed a candidate to stand against Khan at the last election for London Mayor. It needed a heavyweight but no big beasts were interested in the challenge. So Tory HQ stitched up a deal. They persuaded an ethnic candidate to jump into the ring but knowing that it was a fruitless task, promised the house of Lords as compensation. At least the deal was honoured.
ReplyDeleteDiane Abbott still needs to be punished for the hierarchy of racism thesis and the intrinsic antisemitism tied up with it. She should suffer the humiliation of being unable to stand as a Labour candidate in Hackney North. It will not be such a disappointment for her to find that she is being shafted because she has been in parliament since 1987. Whereas, others who are still cutting their teeth in parliament were said to be "devastated" and took it very hard when they were barred from being selected. .
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