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Friday, 10 May 2024
Losing their nerve
Tory MPs losing their nerve because of dire polls, says Jeremy Hunt
Tory MPs are “losing their nerve” because of the party’s poor polling, the Chancellor has said.
Jeremy Hunt told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme the Conservatives were becoming divided because of Labour’s consistent poll lead.
Has Hunt been reading Wodehouse recently?
Sir Roderick Glossop, Honoria’s father, is always called a nerve specialist, because it sounds better, but everybody knows that he’s really a sort of janitor to the looney-bin.
P.G. Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)
We just need them to lose their seats and deposits as well.
ReplyDeleteSam - I hope so, an almighty crash would be good.
ReplyDeleteAnd in another suprising news report, the Pope is a Roman Catholic.
ReplyDeleteWe are still waiting for a report on what ursus arctos does in the forest.
Doonhamer - I'm not sure about the Pope being a Roman Catholic though, at times he seems to be unsure of his role.
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