Friday
A journalist rings to ask what I think of this modern tactic of pouring milkshakes over far-right politicians. I reply that the milkshake is an American import we could well do without and that if one is going to dispose of it then tipping it over a passing Fascist seems as good a way as any.
Warming to my theme, I recall that I was once obliged to sit next to Oswald Mosley at dinner. Things were distinctly frosty between us from the get-go and when he made a disobliging remark about Herbert Samuel I tipped my knickerbocker glory over his head.
This soon became a fashion, and many of the fellows who stopped Mosley’s gallop at Cable Street were armed with the things, though if I am honest their tendency to melt made them an unreliable weapon.
Mind you, as I told the Manchester Guardian at the time, if it had been one of Cook’s trifles I should not have wasted it on a specimen like Mosley.
Lord Bonkers was Liberal MP for Rutland South West, 1906-10.
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Is not a Knickerbocker Glory an earlier American import, named for the family which used to run New York? Did the noble lord not have a syllabub to hand?
ReplyDeleteI have learnt over the years not to criticise him, but you have a point. I may give the pudding initial capitals when he is not looking.
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