Nostalgia Time Again

Just as the late Head Boy was never less convincing than in his Daveybloke, Popinjay of the People persona, so the dead-eyed warden of HM Prison UK has never quite managed to inhabit the mask of vicious populism cosily enough to hide her basic vicious authoritarianism. Nevertheless, it seems she will be using the latest party rah-and-blah to revisit one of her least plausible lines, namely that she has some sort of problem with citizens of nowhere and Putinite stooges calling the Conservatives the nasty party. She will also pump a bit of stale air into the semi-liquescent corpse of the New Labour-vintage excuse that everything which goes wrong is simply the result of everything going wonderfully and the population being too thick-headed to see it. Various postmortem farting noises are likely to ensue, along with corresponding olfactory effects; so at least we should all thank the Conservatives for holding their rah-and-blah during the cold weather and not making summer's perfume even higher.