I was considering which of the PMs children were no hopers
kick off with the Duke of Omnium yeah yeah I know Fictional
randoph Churchill wasnt up to much
Mrs Thatchers twins
Giles Wilson was a maths don
Baldwin - Chamberlain, McDOanld Bonar Law all seem to have sunk without trace
// Mark Thatcher was a reversal in evolutionary theory but Carol was okay. Horace Walpole had his moments.//
yeah but no but none were prime ministers
( or had routes to power - Mummy would and did send people to Mark and not the other way round)
Horrie "running" the country - horribile pensu! (*)
what a thought - first thing lets poison all the poets ! (**)
its sozza sunday folks
(*) horribile - Horace - would you call that classic assimilation or assonance? Meant to be clever anyway - and over Woyz head
(**) first thing - lets kill all the lawyers is Shakespeare
but here has been cleverly recrafted to refer to Walpole's lack of support of Bristol based Thomas Chatterton who poisoned himself with arsenic c 1778. Walpole later referred to him as "that wonderful boy!" ( now dead of course - people noticed at the time)
'' I'm the guy, I'm the guy, who does, y'know, the thing, and erm, I'm from Scranton, empty tables around the chairs, coz I'm the guy, and erm, ring 30030, or 33033, or, y'know my guys know the number!''