Gavin’s Gaily Gigest

Well, somefink wot I wrote at least will be on BBC Radio 4’s Recorded for Training Purposes sketch show tonight at 11pm. So, if your parents will let you stay up that late, you can listen to it then or you can catch it at some point over the next seven days on the BBC [...]

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From this week’s Economist:
“…[David Cameron], Mr Osborne and Mayor Johnson, the three most prominent Tories in the land, were all members of the Bullingdon Club, an infamously elitist and rowdy Oxford dining club. (A photo of Mr Cameron and his clubmates in waistcoat and tails has mysteriously dropped out of circulation.)

Well, if The Economist are [...]

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Following the resignation of deceitful liar Ray Lewis after a series of revelations which exposed him as a man with a Walt Disney-like aversion to the truth.
Thankfully, Mr Lewis has taken the time to explain his position to Gavin’s Gaily Gigest in a specially drafted statement*:
“Yesterday I made the decision to resign as deputy mayor [...]

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Posted on the Treasury website today:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has today appointed Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.
This effectively means Boris Johnson has resigned as MP for Henley and the contest to replace him can begin in earnest.
Only took him 4 weeks and a day…

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It seems Boris Johnson’s dad’s hopes of becoming the next MP for Henley have been dashed, if the Daily Mail are to be believed*:
In a hastily arranged private meeting, the Conservative leader [David Cameron, he of the absent chin and sympathy for the poor] successfully persuaded the constituency association to pick a local candidate [i.e. [...]

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Following the Tories* by-election win in Crewe yesterday, it seems the rumours I mentioned yesterday could be true and the Henley by-election will take place late next month (26th) or early July (3rd). At least, that’s what the Times is reporting today.
Of course, the reason for holding the by-election so soon is to capitalise on [...]

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Will the Henley by-election ever be held? The Times is reporting it could all depend on the outcome of today’s vote in Crewe and Nantwich. If they win, the Tories will seek to capitalise on their momentum, if they lose, they’ll hold off until after the summer recess.
The writ won’t be moved because of, you [...]

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London Mayor Boris Johnson will retain his Daily Telegraph column (worth £250,000 a year) he revealed today, making him the lucky holder of a triplet of jobs: Mayor of London, MP for Henley and newspaper columnist. Is there no end to his talents?
1 week, 3 days, 20 hours, 50 minutes of Three Jobs Boris so [...]

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Boris Johnson has a letter in this week’s Henley Standard bidding farewell to his constituents*:
"Were the people of London really going to go for a Conservative mayor?
"Well, they have. I am writing this from ex-Mayor Livingstone’s eyrie in City Hall, and it is time for Henley to find itself a new MP. It will [...]

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The Times has been out and about in Henley gauging local voters’ views on Boris Johnson’s two jobs* and reveal just how relaxed the timetable for a by-election is:
[Boris Johnson] will stand down, and there will be a by-election, but the local Conservative Party says that it will not have a new candidate in place [...]

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