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Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts) Sat Sep 9, 2017, 04:12 AM Sep 2017

"The smart money is on the butterfly breaking the wheel." (Marina Hyde)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/08/jacob-rees-mogg-conservatives-eton-eccentric

"... And yet here we are today. Much is written about some Tories’ enduring search for a new Iron Lady to fantasise about. Just after the election was called, a few old-school Tory MPs were precipitously referring to Theresa May as Mummy. They will always have to live with the shame of what we all know they did at least a couple of times before they realised May wasn’t The One..."

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