Monday 16 July 2012

Pssst! Meeting behind the rail shed... @ No 10

"Think they wanted a quick smoke?" Arturo asked.

"Who?"

"'Wailing Lad' Clegg and 'Boy David' Cameron, of course!" He pointed at a monitor screen at the picture of the two stooges beside a railway carriage.

It wasn't a 'quick smoke' they were after, no siree! It was an attempted rapprochement. That's right:
A rapprochement!
A reconciliation!
An 'improved understanding and friendship' between two buddies.
As my Welsh grandmother would have said: "Well! There's amazing then!"

It was more than amazing - it was, in fact quite true. The two stooges were behind the rail shed in Smethwick! Ostensibly, it was to announce a £9 billion pledge for rail renewal.

But it was a smokescreen, my friends. The real ploy was to show the boys standing together again side-by-side - never mind whether it was a rail shed or a sewage farm. What was important was the image of the two boys in harmony again. No more of the: I won't play ball with you, if you won't play ball with me. That was the passé tone of last week over Lords Reform and boundary changes. This week, it was
rapprochement

To use 'Boy David' Cameron's words, as quoted by Michael Deacon in The Telegraph:
“We’re here to help the headline writers,” began the Prime Minister, grinning stiffly and gesturing at the ranks of carriages to his right. “Sharing platforms… minding gaps… everything’s on track…” At this point, his supply of locomotive puns ran out of steam, hit the buffers and came off the rails. Clearly he needs a sub editor to train him.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9403090/David-Cameron-insists-he-and-Nick-Clegg-are-not-at-war.html

In another Telegraph article, Christopher Hope quoted Nick Clegg :
"You always get a bump in the road like we did last week in the Westminster village on Lords reform. None of that will stop us continuing to govern in the national interest for the whole country."

As my Welsh Nanna said:
There's amazing then!

Christopher Hope continued:
Asked by the Telegraph what the odds were of the Coalition surviving until the 2015 election, Mr Cameron said: "I am not a bookmaker, I am not a betting man, but I wouldn't bet against it."

Mr Clegg added: "I would bet a considerable amount of money on us staying together."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9403090/David-Cameron-insists-he-and-Nick-Clegg-are-not-at-war.html

Arturo grinned like the Cheshire Cat when he read those last comments! "What odds do you think the local bookies are giving? I fancy a bob or two on the Coalition collapsing before the year is out! Those two really haven't got a clue, have they?"

He's right, of course! 'Boy David' Cameron has the back-woodsmen of the Tory Right sharpening their knives in readiness for the kill! With blokes like that as 'partners', you're better off running for the hills rather than planning a rapprochement.

Arturo and me - we're off for a sardine head kitchen supper! Fancy joining us?

'Bye'



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