... about my dad last night.
(Dad passed away four years ago, but I still think about him all the time.)
But I was wondering what he would have made of this election outcome.
Dad, a Methodist minister, was a HUGE supporter of the Liberals and for a time when we were kids was giving serious consideration to leaving the church and going into politics.
He would have made a brilliant politician! He certainly knew how to hold an audience (congregation) in the palm of his hand. In fact, during the service to celebrate his life, one of the speakers described his oratory skills as a cross between those of Winston Churchill and Richard Burton!
But what I was thinking about last night was an anecdote that was also related during that service. Apparently Dad was approached during a past election campaign in his role as Superintendent Minister of the circuit, by an irate woman who told him that she was absolutely disgusted that one of his junior colleagues was displaying a 'Vote Conservative' poster in the window of the Manse. She wanted to know what Dad was going to do about it.
Dad replied in all seriousness, that he was indeed also appalled and that he would tell the man to remove it at once...
...AND TO REPLACE IT IMMEDIATELY WITH A LIBERAL POSTER!!!!!
Great response Dad! But what would you make of the current situation I wonder?
LILY & ROSE
Here are some photos of Lily & Rose. There are a few from the first time we saw them when they were just 4 weeks old. They would fit on your hand at this age and didn't look much like westies!
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Great story. Sounds like your father would have found this "coalition" a compromise too far. Satisfies noone. Interested to hear what people start calling it or referring to it as. My money's on the "Condoms" because quite frankly...it's inconceivable!
ReplyDeleteTo be honest - he would have considered that the party had sold their soul to the devil!
ReplyDeleteHe may have been a Man of the Cloth, but he detested all that the Conservatives stood for with a passion.
One wag who knew him well actually asked where he had been on the night of the Brighton bombing! Tasteless I know - but an indication of the depth of his disdain and contempt!
The Conservative Government tore the heart and soul from my family in the Eighties. And that I cannot, will not ever forgive. Fortunately I had a couple of beautiful and very welcome distractions...along with The Smiths...
ReplyDeleteI just find it a little sad that people have such very short memories or much worse, think that somone else should have a "turn", like its some sort of Music Hall act...do you know what I mean? Mind you I have a particularly jaundiced view of society and politics generally....but you know who you are...don't you? You know who you are! And you should be ashamed!!
Oh, how I share your sentiment.
ReplyDeleteI hold Magaret Thatcher personally responsible for creating the monstrous, 'me, me, me' society we find ourselves in today.