This book has little to do with wildlife and its conservation, just like two of its characters, Therese Coffey and her bestie, Liz Truss. However, unlike the late unlamented Secretaries of State for the Environment, Henry Morris, is a friend of wildlife and a friend of mine so I’ll happily plug his latest excellent book (have you read the others: Diary of a Secret Royal – my review here, Diary of a Secret Tory MP – my review here).
I think Henry is better at taking the mickey out of the Tories than the Royal family – after all, no one could take the Royals seriously whereas some do take the Conservatives seriously, even the oddball rump of a political party which is the legacy of Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak. Isn’t it terrible that David Cameron doesn’t seem so bad in this company?
This is a very clever book written as it was by William Shakespeare about 415 years ago (the exact year is a bit of a mystery). The Bard at his best.
Here’s a quiz – which former Conservative Prime Ministers said:
- ‘A hut, a hut! My kingdom for a hut!‘
- ‘Can I have my own staff photographer?‘
- ‘You lot can deal with this‘ Stage direction: Hides in Fridge
- ‘Burdening my wife with millions in tax, cruelly forcing her to non-non dom‘
- ‘Bid the music leave, lest into robot-dancing I do break‘
I wonder where Henry will turn his gaze for his next book. Might it be ‘Starmer – a year of disappointing’? Look out Rachel Reeves, your budget will be in the first quarter of that book.
The cover? A ship of fools captured at their best. It is scary how you (not me) voted for these people in general elections and how a few thousand Conservative Party members foisted them on the rest of us. I’d give the cover 9/10 for being accurate but not scaring me too much.
The Tories: a tragedy by Henry Morris is published by Mudlark.
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