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Rambles into 2021...And Another Thing...
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Yes, it’s that time of year again – the New Year’s honours.
Every year – in fact twice a year – I splutter into my coffee when reading of the so called luminaries who have been elevated into the House of Lords. Remember last year? Nicky Morgan,
she of the turn, turn and turn again Dick Whittington school of politics
who not only joined The Lords but once again became a member of Boris Johnson’s Cabinet. Or Claire Fox...
Fox'n'Weasel
...Once of the Revolutionary Communist Party, an MEP for about 5 minutes and now goes around having ideas! Well, now the bottom of the barrel has well and truly been scraped in the form of Dan Hamaneggs.
So how did this priggish, self-opinionated little fellow get to be a Lord of the realm?
As a child he left his boyhood home in Peru – shades of Paddington without the cuddly element – to attend what in Etonian terms might be described as a Championship level public school. From school he attended 'Orifice College' Oxford (of course) and became involved in what passed for Conservative politics.
Upon graduation Hamaneggs pursued his interest in Tory politics until his eye fell upon what he might have thought of as the Empire – perhaps he saw himself as the Luke Skywalker of the Conservative Party. In any event, he joined the Empire (striking back) by virtue of a tiny proportion of the electorate in the SE England electing him to be their MEP. Thus began his crusade to save Britain’s precious sovereignty from the evil that was the European Union.
Month after month, year after year, he pursued his quixotic journey and month after month, year after year, he had to fight the disgust and self-loathing he felt when presented with his tainted financial remunerations and expenses. For twenty years he selflessly pursued his dream – what sacrifice, what determination- and all the while his constituents, most of who had never heard from him or of him, were ignored for the greater good of precious Albion. Finally, when the last windmill had been downed, our hero was free. His crusade which had seemed so forlorn those many years ago was done; the turkey that voted for Christmas had won. But hold, this turkey did not finish up roasted and on the dinner table. Oh no, for services to British Sovereignty in bringing us safe from the perils of the evil Empire, whose only “crime” was to ensure peace and cooperation within the countries of Europe, he was elevated to the House of Lords.
The final word must I think be left to Dan Hamaneggs himself who is quoted as saying the House of Lords was being flooded with, “INCONSEQUENTIAL NOBODIES”*.
Nuff said…
Cough, splutter, I can’t wait for the Queen’s birthday honours!
* Ref: The Plan – Twelve Months to Re-new Britain – Hannon and Carswell 2008.
* https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-independent-1029/20201223/281732682091703
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