”Roger Helmer is a massive….”

No Surbiton is wrong since the – what shall we call it – ‘the chippinjg norton set’ stories and meetings meal whatever with Mr and Mrs Brooks have been run before. A bit like the blair brown meetings with Mr and Mrs Kemp before that.
The issue of one of their horses being a loaned police horse is risible but pointless.
The story is that after investigating Mrs Kemp/Brooks nee Wade and her Labour supporting newspapers and after reporting to a Labour home secretary and bearing in mind her comment to a Labour chaired committee about paying police for information, the Met saw fit (during the period of a Labour govt) to loan her a horse.

What motives could the police have to enter into a cosy relationship with a Labour supporter, a confident of Blair and Brown, and lend her a horse?

@MichaelLCrick: UKIP source says Conservative MEP Roger Helmer will announce tomorrow he’s defecting to UKIP

That should help bring on the eurosceptic spring.

How will Cammie Blair cope when his backbenchers start to grumble about the IMF Euro bailouts or even start another push for an EU referendum?

They still remember how fast Cammie ran away from that referendum and his three line whip against them. And now today they will have been reminded of just how pitiful and ineffectual Cammie’s flounce was as well as Ireland getting a referendum while they still wait for Cammie to grow a pair of balls.

Now imagine eurosceptics seeing the prospect of yet another referendum but this time on Lords reform being mooted.

Poor old eurosceptics. It’s not just Cammie who’s been taken for a ride.

If Cameron had been obsessed with PR he would have arranged better presentation for the Health Bill. Liebour were the kings of spin and still have some practitioners.

As with the defection of Shaun Woodward, Roger Helmer defecting to UKIP has managed to increase the average IQ of both parties. 

Consuls were also only there for a year, I believe.

Hmmm.

Some here say Cameron’s lucky, and Caesar certainly was. Pompey wasn’t stellar but he was a cut above Miliband.

Better to wait until after the whole period has ended to try and compare chaps to those from history.

Now that you’ve raised years, the Lib Dem desire for 15 year terms for ‘Lords’ is bonkers. It’s as bonkers as the Swedish Nymphomaniac Association’s tour bus.

 ’Every time I see a post from Tim or SO I get this image of them sitting
at the comp wearing the front or back end of a panto horse..they have
really blown it with this one, talk about backfiring’
‘Tap your hoof once for Coulson, Dobbin, twice for The Boy…’
My Lord Prescott would make a good pantomime Dame.  Tijuana Jack Dromey as female lead, Harriet H as Principle Boy…

Arabs as huge beasts, lol.  We have eventing and dressage horses.  Nothing much less than 17 hands.  So thoroughbreds look small to us.  Odin, sired by a 17 hand thoroughbred out of a 17+ hand Clydesdale mare, was 19 hands before his 3rd birthday.  Now that’s a huge beast

But you can’t be elected for a year, after 6 months you’d be planning your re-election bid. 

You need at minimum a 4 year term in this country. One of my friends said Cameron = Caesar

Clegg = Mark Antony

Osborne: Octavius/Augutus.

We’re still trying to work out who Brutus et al are though.

Syria

I’ve been looking at map of events and incidents over the last few days and no doubt about it, the Free Syrian Army has melted away over the last week.  Its a wise move, when a conventional enemy comes at you with overwhelming conventional force, you get out of the way

They still get involved in ambushes, still launch attacks on convoys still do some protection of demos but the opposition focus now is on the street protests that still continue all over the place.

The  question is where have the insurgents gone? Some have broke for the border some into areas where Assad’s army hasn’t got the strength. And that is Assad’s problem, his army was stretched, it still is, the borders are leaky and most of the heavy fighting has been done by around 3 divisions and additional internal security troops

At least the protestors and insurgents know now that outside parties are blow hards and that they are on their own. The main offenders it seems are the USA and Turkey who yet again have talked and done nothing.

Despite the crushing of many areas via bombardment and armour, this thing isnt over yet.

 Riding horses around the pyramids or out to the desert ones was a great pasttime when I lived in Cairo. We hired horses from a stable which looked like a small shop front but went back and back like the Tardis. He had a hundred or so horses there.

The owner, Abdul Nabi was the man riding the camel in the opening shots of ‘Laurence of Arabia’.

Interesting. He’s indicated for some time that he’s unhappy with the Tory position, but he offered t stand down as MEP to let the next person on the list replace him. However, as I recall he says he then learned that the party had doubts about the next person and wanted to put in a loyalist, or something like that? – anyway, he decided to stay on.

He is, in my opinion, a possible future UKIP leader. I’ve debated him on climate change in front of an audience that was strongly hostile to him – he put his views calmly and forcefully and declined to be provoked.