Bonkers Hall
Rutland
Tel: Rutland 7
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Similarly, when I think of our great by-election victories – Sutton and Cheam, Brecon and Radnor, Littleborough and Saddleworth – I think first of the manly, dignified memorials we erected to those who fell in these battles. I think too of the poor souls I visit at the Home for Distressed Canvassers in Herne Bay.
Above all, I think of Lembit Opik who went over the top at Dunfermline and West Fife – and has been over the top ever since.
In his defence, he has given those two little dots he used to sport over the O in his name to Julie Pörksen. I have to say, I thought that a Very Kind Gesture.
So let us drink deeply of Smithson & Greaves Northern Bitter (eschew the gassy Dahrendorf Lager) and sing the songs of our youth: The Land, Losing Deposits, Lloyd George Knew My Father….
But before we do, ladies and gentlemen, I give you a toast:
“Absent Friends.”
Bonkers
PS Reading over this foreword, I see that the moral is we Liberal Democrats need another by-election in a constituency with an “and” in it.
2 comments:
Rochester and Strood, Heywood and Middleton??
Lord Bonkers can speak for himself, but I would suggest an "and" is a necessary but not a sufficient condition of success.
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