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  • Theresa’s in the Trough

    Theresa’s in the Trough

    Matthew Steeples highlights that it is not just David Cameron who has been sticking his piggy fingers in the trough; Theresa May also ‘pocketed’ over £1.2 million in the last year alone

    Whilst the media are busy banging on about David Cameron’s bungled attempts at lobbying for Greenshill Capital and the ensuing sleaze scandal that has followed, the majority have missed what his immediate successor has been upto since she was turfed out with the trash by her fellow Tory turncoats.

     

    Yesterday afternoon, however, Guido Fawkes shared news of the ‘Jobs for the Boys and Jobs for the Girls’ ex Tory leader – and don’t forget it’s bins for Sir Philip May and wandering in the wheatfields for his weird wife, the new ‘Lady T’ – when they suggested that the hapless Conservative MP for Maidenhead has pocketed over £700,000 from speeches since standing down as Prime Minister.

     

    Going further this morning, after analysing the Register of Members’ Financial Interests as of 15th March 2021, The Steeple Times can reveal “Brexit means Brexit” Lady May’s latest declaration to be an astonishing £1,075,706 in total – and that’s before adding in her £81,932 MP’s salary and office expenses.

     

    Of this sum for outside earnings, all but one payment is for work for foreign entities and the only payment for ‘work’ in the UK came from JP Morgan. That totalled £160,370 for “two speaking engagements that were cancelled” and this accounted for just 15% of the total ‘earned.’

     

    Whilst we’re at it, let’s not forget ‘MayBeNot’ also managed to secure herself life membership of the Carlton Club and ‘VIP’ perks at Heathrow Airport and Amanda Wakeley and this is all before we get onto her hubby’s no doubt not-too-shabby salary from Capital Group also.

     

    Today we politely enquire: “Why isn’t anyone in the mainstream media wagging a finger at the greedy grubber Theresa May yet or asking her: ‘How on earth do you find the time to serve your constituents?’”

     

    Theresa’s (mostly overseas) trough since February 2020 – £1,075,706

    • 19th February 2020 – Dubai Women Establishment, UAE
      • Speech – £115,000 for 19 hours work (including travel).
    • 26th March 2020 – Structured Finance Association, USA
      • Speech – £115,000 for 25 hours work (including travel).
    • 6th March 2020 – Brown University, USA
      • Speech – £115,000 for 14 hours work (including travel).
    • 6th March 2020 – Trinity University, USA
      • Speech – £115,000 for 26 hours work (including travel).
    • 22nd April 2020 – JP Morgan Chase, UK
      • 2 speaking engagements – £160,370 for zero hours to date (will be rescheduled).
    • 25th June 2020 – World 50 Inc, USA
      • 3 speaking engagements – £101,169 for 7 hours work “to date.”
    • 17th September 2020 – Telmex Foundation, Mexico
      • Virtual speaking engagement – £46,750 for 6 hours work.
    • 18th September 2020 – World Knowledge Forum, South Korea
      • Speaking engagement – £136,000 for 30 hours work (including travel).
    • 9th November 2020 – Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry, USA
      • Virtual speaking engagement – £45,500 for 6 hours work.
    • 20th January 2021 –The Richmond Forum, USA
      • Speech – £48,245 for 3 hours work.
    • 20th January 2021 – TPG Communication, France
      • Speech – £39,000 for 2 hours work.
    • 4th February 2021 – Society of the Four Arts, USA
      • Virtual speaking engagement – £38,672 for 5 hours work.

     

    What else has Theresa been pocketing lately from her ‘Magic Money Tree’?

    • An MPs salary of £81,932 plus expenses “to cover the costs of running an office, employing staff, having somewhere to live in London or their constituency, and travelling between Parliament and their constituency.”
    • An £85,000 per year salary from the Office of Theresa May Limited “until further notice” for just 24 hours work per month or just 288 hours work per year.
    • Honorary life membership of the Carlton Club.
    • ‘VIP treatment’ at Heathrow Airport, valued at £4,200 a pop, at least 14 times totalling at least £58,800.
    • Substantial rental income from a flat in London owned jointly with her husband.
    • A discount card from Amanda Wakeley, “which has the potential to be of registrable value.”

     

    Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    Theresa’s in the Trough – Theresa May MP’s £1.2m in 2020 – 2021 – Matthew Steeples highlights that it is not just David Cameron who has been sticking his piggy fingers in the trough; Theresa May also ‘pocketed’ over £1.2 million in the last year alone.
    Theresa’s in the Trough – Theresa May may go down in history as one of the very worst Prime Ministers ever, yet she and her hedge fund tin banger husband Philip have pocketed titles and are set to receive multi-millions of pounds in future income.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc9tToN5XGk
    Theresa’s in the Trough – Sir Philip May’s employer’s, Capital Group, are regularly quite rightly criticised over the legitimacy of their potentially unethical investments. Plainly and frankly, he and his wife don’t give a damn.
  • Titles for the Boys and Girls – Elevation of Sir Philip May

    Titles for the Boys and Girls – Elevation of Sir Philip May

    Giving a knighthood to Philip May for “political services” is absolutely preposterous given his firm’s dubious connections; instead Count Binface would have been a better recipient

    One can assume ‘Brenda from Bristol’ will not be amused at news that Theresa May’s garden gnome-like husband has been given a knighthood and Twitter users reacted similarly.

     

    Aside from some highlighting the newly elevated Sir Philip’s company’s shareholding in arms manufacturers that sold £15 billion worth of weaponry to Saudi Arabia during the merciless Yemen assault, it should be recalled that this relationship manager at Capital Group was criticised last September by the father of a Kingsman killed in Iraq. Of the then plain old Mr May, Bill Stewardson remarked:

     

    “Leaving aside my son’s death, which is difficult, how the hell can we have a Prime Minister whose husband directly profits from companies that avoid paying tax and make a huge profit from selling arms to Saudi Arabia? How can that be? Why is that fair?”

     

    With a vast shareholding in the aiders of electoral manipulation that is Facebook and billions in Russian companies also, many of the Capital Group’s other connections are equally questionable. With some of these organisation’s having been involved in subverting the EU referendum result, the conflict of interest between Sir Philip’s business life and role as spouse of the former Prime Minister has been quite rightly questioned.

     

    During the 2017 general election campaign, May himself declared: “I get to decide when I take the bins out. Not if I take them out. I do the traditional boy jobs by and large.” Whilst that just made him sound like an oddball, him now receiving an honour is nothing but rubbish.  Frankly, his wife’s one-time fellow candidate in Maidenhead, Count Binface (formerly Lord Buckethead), would have been more deserving of the knighthood.

     

    Pictured top: Theresa May and her husband kissing and waving and the former prime minister with the former Lord Buckethead.

     

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    Titles for the Boys and Girls – Elevation of Sir Philip May – Giving a knighthood to Philip May for “political services” is absolutely preposterous given his firm’s dubious connections; instead Count Binface would have been a better recipient.
    ‘To Thyself Be True’ – Sir Philip and Lady May (as they must now be called) are akin to characters from ‘Wallace and Gromit’ and now they have a strange coat of arms which features a design that contains what looks like two sheaves of wheat.
    Brenda from Bristol will unlikely be amused at news of Mr Philip May being elevated to Sir Philip May.
  • Positivity From Pleurat

    Positivity From Pleurat

    Refugee turned “one-man vodka band” Pleurat Shabani shares a message of positivity (and a reminder that we’ll all be having a martini or three together again soon)

    Having escaped the civil war in Croatia, Kosovo born Pleurat Shabani headed to London in 1994. He, unlike Dick Whittington, did not find streets paved with gold but ended up working as a lavatory cleaner and kitchen porter.

     

    Later, forced onto the streets after losing his job at Soho House, Shabani “hit rock bottom” but did not give up. He found a job as a glass washer at Oliver Peyton’s Atlantic Bar & Grill – which ironically was later ‘sunk’ by Marco Pierre White’s Titanic restaurant – and after being promoted to a role as a bartender, began a journey that ultimately resulted in the creation of his own vodka, Konik’s Tail.

     

    Shabini, without the big money backing most spirits brands garnered in the early-to-mid 2000s, is a surprising success story. We reported on it back in 2014 and in spite of his shoestring budget – and the fact he literally had to glue his own footwear together (he considers them “ part of his journey”) – Konik’s Tail is now stocked in everywhere from Dukes Hotel to Waitrose.

     

    Now, at this time of lockdown, the notoriously shy luddite Shabani has taken to social media and on Instagram, a place he’s only posted once before, shared a message of positivity that we should all heed. It follows in full below:

     

    “First of all, I hope this finds you well in these increasingly challenging times of disruption and enormous changes to the daily lives of all of us. Together, we have learnt that passion, optimism and community will help us all come out stronger.”

     

    “The pride of who we are as a community is not part of our past, it defines our present and our future. You have inspired me. Your presence has inspired me. Your friendship has inspired me. And, your stories have inspired me.”

     

    “Together we will succeed and that success will belong to everyone of us. Better days will return. Stools behind the bar might be empty, no late nights, no last calls, but this – you are not forgotten. Our hearts are full of love until we are reunited again. I know we will be with our friends again, with our families again and I know we will share a Konik’s Tail martini again.”

     

    “Spread the love and positive energy, help a friend, even a stranger. Until we meet again, be well, be safe and love each other. My warmest wishes to you all and thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

     

    Konik’s Tail Vodka is available from Waitrose for £38 for a 70cl bottle. Thankfully they can still deliver it – so have your chilled martini glasses at the ready.

     

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  • A Perfect Estate

    A Perfect Estate

    Diverse 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year

     

    A vast Suffolk estate – just 120 miles from London – has gone on sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) either as a whole or in upto 21 lots through agents Knight Frank.

     

    Owned by Sir Guy and Lady Quilter and originally part of a larger 8,000 acre property, the 2,177 acre Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge has been in the same family since the early 1900s. It has 3½ miles of frontage to the River Deben and is divided between 1,432 acres of irrigable arable land served by two large reservoirs, 375 acres of mature woodland and 242 acres of grazing and parkland.

     

    Centred around a 6,084 square foot Grade II listed Georgian house with eight bedrooms, the estate also comes with eleven further farmhouses and cottages, numerous outbuildings, a keepered sporting shoot and a private quay.

     

    Crops grown on the property include wheat, winter barley, potatoes, sugar beat, rape, vining peas, carrots, parsnips and onions whilst the selling agents comment: “For those looking to create an even more diversified business, the environmental and agricultural opportunities are boundless.”

     

    In remarks to Knight Frank’s 2018 Rural Report, Sir Guy Quilter recently stated:

     

    “We feel very lucky to have had the opportunity and I’m really proud of what we’ve achieved, but it feels like we’ve done as much as we’re comfortable doing without changing the nature of the estate.”

     

    “You have to feel completely comfortable running a place like this because you can get it wrong very easily. History is littered with estates that have turned to dust within a generation.”

     

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    A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.  A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank. A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.A Perfect Estate – 2,000 acre Suffolk riverside estate for sale for £31.5 million; it has been owned by the same family since the 19th century and produces an income of some £500,000 per year – Sutton Hall, The Sutton Hall Estate, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3JJ, United Kingdom – For sale for £31.5 million ($40.1 million, €35.3 million or درهم147.4 million) through Knight Frank.

  • Whacking Out The Wheat

    Whacking Out The Wheat

    Upto 20 sensible Conservative MPs are set to rebel against ‘Wheat Field Wanderer’ Theresa May over her plans to enshrine the date of Brexit in law

     

    This morning The Telegraph revealed upto twenty Conservative MPs are set to do the right thing. Unsurprisingly deemed “Brexit mutineers” by the paper, this diverse group “have informed senior party figures that they will join forces with Labour to block new measures that would enshrine the date of Brexit in law.”

     

    Fifteen of these sensible individuals are reported as being:

     

    Heidi Allen

    Ken Clarke

    Jonathan Djanogly

    Vicky Ford

    Dominic Grieve

    Stephen Hammond

    Oliver Heald

    Jeremy Lefroy

    Paul Masterton

    Nicky Morgan

    Bob Neil

    Antoinette Sandbach

    Anna Soubry

    Tom Tughendhat

    Sarah Wollaston

     

    We salute them all and encourage other right-minded sorts to join their number.

     

    #BetterTogether #WreckBrexit

    #BringHerDown #MakeNovemberTheEndOfMay

     

  • The Sound of Theresa

    The Sound of Theresa

    In taking three weeks off for a holiday with her ‘Garden Gnome’ hubby, Theresa May has shown where her priorities lie

     

    Whilst orchestrating the most appallingly run election campaign in recent history, Theresa May waxed lyrical about her naughty moments wandering in wheat fields. Now, our Prime Minister, at a time when most would consider themselves lucky to get even a few days off, is jetting off a three-week jaunt with her beloved ‘Garden Gnome-like’ husband, Philip.

     

    Described by the Mail Online as an opportunity to “help her recover from the election disaster”, the couple’s trip will take in northern Italy and the Swiss Alps. No doubt Mrs May will release her inner Heidi and yodel as she wanders and no doubt the hills will come alive to her rendition of The Sound of Music.

     

     

  • Bumbling Bucketheads

    Bumbling Bucketheads

    Theresa May’s decision to appoint Andrea Leadsom is indicative of where her bumbling bag of bilge government is headed

     

    Last Thursday, at the count in her constituency, the rival candidate to attract the most attention to Theresa May was undoubtedly Lord Buckethead. Though it was his outfit that stood out, his ability to interest the electorate to his cause was actually far more impressive than a Prime Minister who’ll now go down as the “Weakest and Wobbliest” in modern history.

     

    Yesterday, in appointing Andrea Leadsom as Leader of the Commons, May made her worst move since being allowed to form a minority administration. Incapable of coming up with suggestions other than “Brexit will bring a better deal for teaspoons”, Leadsom is known for exaggerating her CV, stating that men shouldn’t be allowed to look after young children as they might be paedophiles and receiving donations to her campaign via companies connected to British Virgin Island based tax havens. She is an extreme Brexiteer, widely disliked and generally considered “a little stupid” and given Mrs May needs to unite rather than divide, her appointment seems an especially curious choice.

     

    As we head into even rockier waters with Brexit negotiations on the horizon, Leadsom is not what the Conservative Party let alone the country needs. She is not a woman who’ll unite her party and she’s not a woman who’ll bring harmony to our divided nation. And nor is Theresa May. It is time these bumbling buckethead imposters departed.

     

    #BringHerDown #MakeJuneTheEndOfMay

     

    Pictured above: Image 1 – Andrea Leadsom with a combine harvester – it is not clear how many wheat fields were naughtily damaged in the taking of that photograph; Image 2 – Prime Minister Theresa May with fellow candidate Lord Buckethead in Maidenhead, Berkshire on 8th June – ‘Team Buckethead’ later captioned the image: “Space Lord meets woman who used to run through fields of wheat”.

     

    Bumbling Bucketheads – Theresa May appointments Andrea Leadsom – Theresa May’s decision to appoint CV faker Andrea Leadsom is indicative of where her bumbling bag of bilge government is headed.
    Andrea Leadsom, plainly afraid of being asked questions, has blocked The Steeple Times’ editor Matthew Steeples on Twitter

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=182&v=hKjGaTytWM4

     

  • Theresa’s Trumped

    Theresa’s Trumped

    Blundering bin bag Theresa May will form a minority government today, but it won’t last; the nation want her and her nasty party gone

     

    From the moment Theresa May awkwardly held Donald Trump’s hand in Washington back in January, it was all but over. Cursed by appearing a poodle to the worst POTUS in history, Britain’s then unelected Prime Minister showed herself as a kowtowing coward and a mandateless moron.

     

    May – a self-declared “goody two shoes” whose outfits are supposedly chosen with the help of her ‘charitable’ chum Lady Meyer and whose “most naughty moment ever” was supposedly “golly gosh, running through fields of wheat” – had not needed to call an election but doing so has rightly cost her dear. When the contest was announced back in May, the public, represented best by ‘Brenda from Bristol’, told her: “Not another [election]. Oh for God’s sake, I can’t honestly… I can’t stand this”, but on this Lady Macbeth-like harridan blundered.

     

    Theresa’s Trumped – Theresa Trump got it so wrong and should go – Blundering bin bag Conservative leader Theresa May will form a minority government today, but it won’t last; the nation want her and her nasty party gone
    Philip and Theresa May – a bumbling ‘Wallace & Gromit-like’ duo unsuitable for the task of steering our nation through Brexit and beyond

     

    Appearing on the BBC’s One Show with her garden gnome-like husband, Philip, foolish Mrs May car-crashingly joked about whose responsibility it was to take the bins out – there are, after all, “boys jobs” and “girls jobs” – and kept repeating her mantra of “Strong and Stable”. It was no longer about parties, it was “Theresa’s Team” but what the nation rightly came to understand her as was as one of the worst Home Secretary’s in modern history. Here, indeed, was a woman who’d closed our police stations and here was one who’d shut our fire stations; here was a woman whose friendship with the McCanns had resulted in them getting £11 million for their pointless search and here was a woman whose inquiry into historic abuse cost £100 million, yet, again achieved nothing for victims.

     

    Though, surprisingly, for once, former UKIP’s former leader Nigel Farage got it right in stating: “The vicar’s daughter came across as insincere and establishment… Jeremy Corbyn fought and an amazing campaign and came across well”, it took Labour’s Tom Watson to sum up the mood of the nation when he remarked: “She said she was strong and stable. The public saw she was weak and wobbly”.

     

    The Tory leader shot herself in the foot yesterday and as Paddy Ashdown concluded: “Mrs May: Enough is enough”. Let’s now put the rubbish out and let’s consign Theresa May to the bin bag of history.

     

  • From the ashes

    From the ashes

    One of England’s finest estates comes to the market for £25 to £30 million

     

    The scene of the tragic deaths of the Conservative MP Michael Colvin and his wife Nicola in 2000 in a fire, Tangley House, near Andover in Hampshire subsequently had to be demolished. A new house was constructed on the site in 2005 by a property developer named Harry Marriott and now he’s put it on the market complete with 505 acres of land (more…)

  • Tatiana von Saxe Wilson: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”

    Tatiana von Saxe Wilson: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”

    20 questions with founder of The People’s Book Prize Tatiana von Saxe Wilson

     

    The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?

    Pursuit and success.

     

    “Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?

    “Make the best better”.

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