Wry & Dry #19-26 Elvis still alive? Liberals still alive? Mental derangement.
Fiftieth anniversaries are optimal for retrospective reconstructions of events. So, it has been with The Dismissal: a prime minister getting the DCM from the GG. Uncle Albo didn’t even wait for the starter’s gun. The Gnats wagged the dog; and the Liberals have given Uncle Albo a great chance at breaking Menzies’ record. New peaks in Trumpster’s mental derangement continue, the men in white coats are standing by. Read on.
Wry & Dry #14: Bumper issue. Outlasting a lettuce. Budget? Smudge it. Back to the future.
The last two weeks have unarguably been the UK’s biggest unforced humiliation since Suez. After the UK gilt market and sterling collapsed, she dumped her ideological newbie Chancellor of the Exchequer; agreed to overturn polices she backed days earlier; and fired her Home Secretary (is there an Away Secretary?). It was only then that her parliamentary colleagues began to wake up from their afternoon snoozes at their St James’ clubs. And looked at the latest polls.
WRY & DRY #11: The sky is falling, again. Meanwhile, in Uzbekistan. Retreat to Moscow
Meanwhile in Uzbekistan… two modern day autocrats will be attending a CPD course on “How to invade a neighbouring country.”