Hiding in the Garden

[davidgillon]

 So Rishi popped by my home town on Saturday*. Did he visit one of the run-down estates? No, he visited the Walled Garden, latest attraction in the literal palace** at the far end of the Market Place.

Tories gonna Tory.

* If I'd known I'd have popped down to heckle, but Walled Garden, inside a walled palace - god forbid he might meet any of the hoi-polloi.

** The Bishop***'s Palace, now owned by a multi-millionaire philanthropist.

*** Bishop of Durham, once the Prince Bishop of Durham, charged with rallying the North against the XheathenX XScotsX XWhite WalkersX Labour voters

Comments

[madgastronomer]

My wife tells me Rishi cut out of the D Day memorial stuff, and BBC News just... ran footage of him from a previous year's attendance, and didn't mention at all that he left.

[davidgillon]

There were two D-Day events, Sunak did the first (British) one, which there was live coverage of, and left David Cameron, former PM, now Foreign Secretary, to do the second (international) one with Biden, Scholz and Macron in the evening - I'm not sure that had live coverage. There won't have been footage of him from the previous one as that was in 2019, when he was a junior minister. It hasn't been out of the news since, BBC included. He was still hiding from the press on Saturday - hence the Walled Garden trip with almost no press in attendance - the local paper got an interview and that was it.

It's essentially destroyed him, even his own party are queuing up to say it was a stupid mistake. He'd already lost the election, he's now pretty much certain to be unseated as leader of the Tories post- election (which admittedly was already likely), and I wouldn't be surprised if he fails to be re-elected at all, there's a lot of military bases around his constituency, which means a lot of suddenly p*ssed-off ex-squaddies.

[madgastronomer]

Aha. Thank you for explaining!

[rmc28]

Apparently he was in my aunt's area (Macclesfield) last week, and also David Cameron (!) was pulling pints (!!) in her local (that she never goes to, such an opportunity lost).

[hilarita]

I don't think beer is a particularly good liquid to use to make mortar, so I'm not sure that this attempt at shoring up the Red Wall will work....

[davidgillon]

Okay, so if Rishi is cos-playing Liz Truss in the manifesto, then this sounds like Dave was trying to cos-play Nigel Farage in the pub.