‘What’s Gove got to do, got to do, with it?’
Mrs Gove, Sarah Vine, Lady MacVine, prepares to iron the creases out of the ‘poor fellow’ after sitting on him the night before… Very little, I suspect. However, Mrs Gove, or Lady MacVine (in the bedroom, with the dagger)…that is another matter.
You don’t get to be Godmother to the Cameron’s younger daughter unless you are very, very, close friends. You don’t appoint a Godmother on the basis of political niceties, it is too personal a task for that.
You don’t get to be invited to Murdoch’s recent wedding, unless you are very, very, close personal friends. David Cameron wasn’t. Boris Johnson wasn’t. Even Tony Blair wasn’t.
Mrs Gove happily portrayed her husband in her Daily Mail column as a snoring, sexual bore that she avoided having sex with. Her opinion of him as a wimp was scarcely improved when she used her column to tell of how he had ‘crept off to bed’ on the night of the referendum, leaving her entertaining their guests (or avoiding sex yet again) and awoke baffled and bleary eyed the next morning to be castigated by this dominant women with ‘you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off’.
Before that, she had accidentally on purpose managed to copy in a member of the public to her e-mail urging Michael to put some lead in his pencil and ‘stand up to Boris’.
She could not have done more to belittle and denigrate her husband. A belittled and denigrated wimp is the last person we need leading the country at the moment.
Tory politicians have now taken to referring to Michael Gove as ‘the cuckoo in Boris’s nest’. I can only assume that Sarah Vine played a leading part in placing him there. She has already told us that her husband cannot put his glasses on in the morning without her telling him to do so.
Which makes this morning’s Daily Mail all the more intriguing. Have they just realised that their ‘star’ columnist, Sarah Vine, has been Murdoch’s cuckoo in their nest all along?
They describe the events of yesterday as ‘“one of the most unedifying days in modern politics; characterised by vicious animosity, crass hyperbole and risible dishonesty”.
Orchestrated by their own columnist?
- right_writes
July 1, 2016 at 10:18 am -
Andrea Leadsom…
The woman has a degree of steel about her, but she has a lovely disarming smile, she probably has powerful ankles.
The only blot on her copybook as far as I can see, is that she swore that she believed in “manbearpig” when she was being measured up for the energy job under the dreadful Rudd harridan.
- windsock
July 1, 2016 at 10:26 am -
“A belittled and denigrated wimp is the last person we need leading the country at the moment.”
,,,but that is PRECISELY why he wants the job.
- david
July 1, 2016 at 11:10 am -
That is the cost of having someone to play the part of your ‘wife’. I just hope the house in Downing Street has enough closets to fit everyone in.
- windsock
July 1, 2016 at 11:47 am -
Oh, please don’t say you’re taking the Billy Vague insinuation route?
1) On what grounds and how do you substantiate it?
2) And who cares what “arrangements” a couple have privately? Although, admittedly, Mrs Gove does not appear to be too worried about where the boundaries of privacy lie.- david
July 1, 2016 at 12:03 pm -
As long as Mrs Vine is not the one running the Country I suppose it is not really of interest. They are not the only couple with their eye on Downing Street, there is also Mr Fox & Mr Werritty. I was only asking how many closets there were in Downing Street, and if everyone could fit in.
- Bandini
July 1, 2016 at 3:20 pm -
Still waiting for that proof you claimed to possess, David! Remember? Cliff Richard at Elm Guest House!
When you’ve tired yourself out fantasising about ani and have recovered sufficient strength in your arm to type – and when you’re sure those spooks disguised as dog-walkers haven’t trailed you from the clinic to the drop-in centre! – post it here, would you? Thanks in advance.- Henry Wood
July 1, 2016 at 11:00 pm -
Very, very well stated, Bandini.
It is only when the likes of “david”‘s posts are immediately and properly challenged by readers – (and usually, or even *always*, there is a failure to reply by the likes of “david” to such legitimate challenges) – that a blog site like Ms Raccoon’s maintains its inviolable position well above the high water mark of the sludge created by many other current “blogs” who favour the more conspiratorial, or even the tin-foil hat position that I have seen.
I will name no names, but a certain lunatic now living across the Channel … [you said no names! ed] - david
July 2, 2016 at 7:17 am -
You must have seen my ‘post’, ‘why would an unknown man, with an unusual name, not famous, a straight, ordinary man, not a pedophile, end up on the so called ‘Elm Guest House List’ ?’ As the saying goes, ‘everyone’ knows about Gove, and Fox. Both have what are known as ‘Tory Wives’, but it is not illegal, and would never need proof, as it would never end up in court. Remember that gossip was the forerunner of the printed word.
- Mr Ecks
July 2, 2016 at 10:11 am -
“Remember that gossip was the forerunner of the printed word.”
In the same sense that bullshit was the forerunner of War and Peace.
And you David are a Tolstoy indeed.
- Bandini
July 2, 2016 at 10:19 am -
No I hadn’t seen your “‘post’”, David. Apart from the fact that I’ve been busy with other stuff the comic thrill of reading your madcap nonsense has waned – sorry. Maybe when the BBC broadcast or make mention of that interview you gave them I’ll prick up my ears again, eh? Then again…
But just to remind you, you claimed to have “proof” that the ridiculous list was “accurate”. For it to be accurate the list of ‘visitors’ would need to accurately reflect the people who actually visited (for reasons fair or foul) which would include Cliff Richard amongst others. You are unable to do so and seem spectacularly uninterested in the less-than stirling character of the two liars who cobbled it together and claimed the information came from a woman who was long gone by the time they opened their big gobs (and who herself was – ahem! – a long way from sainthood anyway). Some undated scraps of paper which obviously are not what their author(s) claim them to be and which show additions in different handwriting/ink are your ‘proof’? Hold ’em up to the light and you’d likely see the beer stains from the session which produced them!
An unknown name? No idea. Another score to be settled? A laugh? Shall I put your name on a bit of paper, take a crap photo of it & post it (upside down) to be drooled over by lunatics? Hmmm…
- Mr Ecks
- Henry Wood
- Bandini
- david
- susie
July 2, 2016 at 1:16 am -
Don’t let appearances deceive you. Gove is well known, in political circles, to be a man of considerable heterosexual passion and there are endless jokes about his appendage.
It is, apparently, of epic proportions.
- david
July 2, 2016 at 7:40 am -
You jest kind Sir. The ‘rumors’ are let run by the owners, when he was a luvvy, he shared a flat with Ivan Massow, and Tory MP Nick Boles. The ‘passion’ as you call it was far from the way you describe it, but you are right about his appendage.
- Bandini
July 2, 2016 at 9:55 am -
You been to another dinner party in Molly Parkin’s council flat or summat?
Hmmm, but perhaps there was a coded nod to his penile proportions when the Mail mentioned Gove “squirt[ed] a fire hose over his sleeping body”. Rest assured though, David, you’re still the biggest of dicks so far as I’m concerned!
- Bandini
- david
- windsock
- the moon is a balloon
July 1, 2016 at 12:06 pm -
Rumour has it that there was a very good reason Blair wasn’t invited, Miss Raccoon. If he wasn’t “safe” with the previous incumbent, he certainly wasn’t going to be with the new one.
- Dioclese
July 1, 2016 at 12:50 pm -
Nice picture
- The Blocked Dwarf
July 1, 2016 at 1:42 pm -
So on this morning after the The Night Of Strict Wives, when newspaper headlines nationwide tell us who our next PM May be….it’s nice to see that in Norfolk at least the papers are sticking to the really momentous stuff, the searing questions of our time:
https://s32.postimg.org/3sx0okh6t/nacht_lang_weibedit.pngYep you know you’ve been in Norfolk too long when you find yourself taking photos of the billboards.
- Bandini
July 1, 2016 at 3:11 pm -
She can keep the pebble but I’d be interested in the face of Jesus, would look nice above the mantlepiece in a glass jar. Wonder how much she wants for it?
- Bandini
- Chris
July 1, 2016 at 3:02 pm -
- Bandini
July 1, 2016 at 3:30 pm -
Appears in the Daily Mail so it must be true:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063366/Top-Tory-Michael-Gove-bed-Oxford-romp.htmlWorth a read just for the image of Gove: “in a ‘hulkman rage’, [he] poured scrambled eggs over his rival and later tried to squirt a fire hose over his sleeping body – but missed.”
- Bandini
- tdf
July 1, 2016 at 7:12 pm - Jimbob McGinty
July 1, 2016 at 10:01 pm - tdf
July 2, 2016 at 12:29 am -
A view from Ireland:
http://cf.broadsheet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/examiner-10.jpg
Some Eurosceptic noises being expressed it seems.
- tdf
July 2, 2016 at 12:44 am -
Veteran Europhile Wet Tory ‘Big Beast’ Ken Clarke has now slapped down Gove.
This gets funnier by the day.
- Mr Ecks
July 2, 2016 at 10:30 am -
Clarke–the fat scum–just like Michael “Preperation H”eseltine are desperate to see May as PM.
She is another middle/class cultural Marxist (“Britons benefit from Sharia Law”) puke cast in the mould of Camoron. She can’t stop Brexit but she would see negotiations are done from a position of self-sabotage.
She is also an arrogant, authoritarian bitch who is epically STUPID. And enjoys wiping her fat arse on our civil liberties.
She of the 100,000 “trafficked” underage Viet girls supposedly brought into the UK against their will. Held prisoner at and forced to provide sexual service from Britain’s (approx. 1500) nail salons.
A creature stupid enough to reel off, in the HoC (and obviously without a thought about the nonsense she was spouting) Marxian feminist propaganda freshly handed to her is a woman of zero real IQ. Merely animal cunning.
The Dail Mail says she is essential. If you can influence any Tory voting in this election–please tell them she is not.
- The Blocked Dwarf
July 2, 2016 at 11:08 am -
but she would see negotiations are done from a position of self-sabotage.
While I agree with you on May, you seem to be labouring under the erroneous assumption that any GB PM will be able to negotiate from a position of anything but abject acquiescence. There is nothing to ‘negotiate’, the UK is not in a position of strength. All we can hope for is that she lets us keep the dog and the 80s porn collection. The ‘joke’ of it is, the EU leaders have already made very clear what access to their markets is going to cost the UK and yet ‘we’, Brits, still seem to think we will be able to pick n mix . We won’t. Just be grateful they, the EU, aren’t insisting we finally accept the Euro and drive on the right.Or did you think that when Angie said ‘let’s not be nasty about this’ she meant the EU would let the UK keep the car and the widescreen?
If our government had any sense they would appoint Rowan Atkinson as Chief Negotiator, strangely enough Mr Bean is regarded with great affection and even as a ‘guru’ of sorts over there. I’m not entirely joking, most Europeans think that when the Brit PM says ‘Bonjour’ he’s lied twice already , but Mr Bean they would trust. Mr Bean doesn’t whinge.If Mr Bean pulled up in his mini outside EU HQ , got out and showed Teddy the waiting journalists ‘LOOK Teddy, you’re famous!’ we might have a chance of at least not having to move back into our childhood bedroom at the parents.
- Mudplugger
July 2, 2016 at 2:52 pm -
Given the spooky resemblance between Mr Bean and Mr Gove, he sounds like your nomination for the top job.
- Mudplugger
- The Blocked Dwarf
- Mr Ecks
- Duncan Disorderly
July 2, 2016 at 7:33 am -
I did question why you did a late conversion to the Leave cause, but now realise it wasn’t because of sovereignty or some such cobblers, but because leaving the EU would generate easy content for your blog. Charlatans now roam the land in ever greater numbers. Reactionaries and misfits compete to become PM. Marvellous stuff!
- Mr Ecks
July 2, 2016 at 10:41 am -
Are you one of the well-off London Bubble gang Doug?
Those too whom the EU and free movement of nannies/au pairs/ethnic chefs etc–as well as their lovely well-paid jobs in Smoke–have given a spiffing lifestyle to?
These creatures are the most hateful of the remainers. Not only do they see their little cultural Marxist paradise (with all the white working trash put in their place–ie nowhere) going down the pan but they are all filing their pants at the thought that Brexit might leave them not so comfortably off. Paul Joseph Watson has a video on you tube showing some dozy 22 year-old Bubbler cow sobbing because she thinks that Brexit will mean the instant closure of the (South African) food chain Nandoos. High time this lot got a rocket up their arse.
Or do you just like the idea of tyranny for the benefit of political and bureaucratic scum?
- Mr Ecks
- david
July 2, 2016 at 7:56 am -
My one link in these troubled times would beSarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5Nbp_gmgQ&feature=youtu.be
- Major Bonkers
July 2, 2016 at 9:45 am -
Troubled times? While we wait, in trembling fear, for Dave’s promised great depression and third world war, and George’s ‘punishment budget’, there is still much that we can enjoy: the love of our families and friends, the sunshine, the hilarious behaviour of our politicians, the great national v-sign delivered to Jean-Claude, Angela, and Francois, and the huge amount of internet pornography.
I recently discovered this lovely piece of music, based on a prayer of St. Patrick, by Arvo Part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt0_Qt1U4II
- windsock
July 2, 2016 at 10:15 am -
In which case you might also appreciate this (or already know it):
- david
July 2, 2016 at 12:58 pm -
Something that would be nice to hear up at Balmoral Castle, reminds me of Vicky & Albert, nice
- Bandini
July 2, 2016 at 1:01 pm -
- david
July 2, 2016 at 1:04 pm -
I am usually invited, I would never pay to stay in that cold drafty white elephant.
- david
- Bandini
- david
- david
July 2, 2016 at 12:54 pm -
Nice, reminds me of my frequent stays with my friend Brother Rufus, at Mount St Bernard’s Monastery in Leicestershire. I creep out of bed at 3am, and go into the chapel where the monks are singing by candle light behind the great screen, keeping an eye out for the recluse monk who lives up in the woods.
- Bandini
July 2, 2016 at 12:59 pm -
And that’d be the same recluse who can be found in the local pub on a regular basis, right? You’ve told this tale before…
- david
July 2, 2016 at 1:01 pm -
That is just an ongoing joke, no one has seen him for years. His food is left outside every evening.
- Bandini
July 2, 2016 at 1:03 pm -
To be found under the duvet at Molly Parkin’s, perhaps.
- Bandini
- david
- Bandini
- windsock
- Major Bonkers
- tdf
July 2, 2016 at 9:22 pm -
It has been noted that within a few months Britain could have seven female party leaders, including three lesbians (that’s assuming Scots Labour and Tories are counted as separate parties).
With that in mind, may I present:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xinLivR8Sp0
(Matt Lucas is himself a gay, and therefore allowed to gently poke fun at other gays. That’s one of the rules).
- binao
July 3, 2016 at 8:45 am -
Interesting seeing the latest demonising and belittling of Mr Gove.
I have no personal knowledge of any of those seeking the role of PM, but I do have a regard for Gove inasmuch as that he was prepared to challenge the educators’ club, and that he seemed to have intellect and drive. If the drive came from home, fine. His opportunism wrt Boris seems unexceptional; you’re either serious about winning or you’re not.
Leadsom is I’m sure clever, I’m unconvinced of her commitment to the task in hand. I wasn’t convinced by Boris either.
Mrs May seems to be a very successful survivor, which is not the same as a performer. Maybe it’s a good qualification, but my view is that we need someone tough with vision and determination to get the job done too. In this case the job isn’t just personal survival.I wonder if the newspaper headlines about the candidates are worth the ink. The electorate aren’t involved, if they were they’ve recently shown discrimination and disregard for this sort of nonsense. Hard to imagine the MPs being influenced either. Those thinking they still have career opportunity will presumably be more influenced by direct approaches affecting their future.
Just a view.- david
July 3, 2016 at 8:52 am -
Gove is still a schoolboy himself, and all he talks about are the 1950’s, and what a perfect era it was.
- binao
July 3, 2016 at 11:57 am -
As one of the uninvolved, I can’t say I’ve seen that side of Gove; a bit odd considering he wasn’t there.
I was & can well remember the emergence from the grey world and lack of anything of the late ’40’s. A bit like summer starting. Health Service (yes I know that was ’48), new homes, new schools, more and different food. We even wired our gaslit council house and got connected.- david
July 3, 2016 at 12:49 pm -
Yes that is why it is odd. Maybe he used to read famous five books. And free cod liver oil !
- david
- binao
- david
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