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The Tory Party in England is electing a new
leader.
That is a little uncharitable. The Tory Party
of England and Dumfries and Galloway, is electing a new leader.
Attempting to follow in the dismal footsteps
of wee Billy-Boy Hague are an overweight beer swilling Tory whose
wages are currently paid by drug overlords in the shape of tobacco
Barons, and a bald, right-winger who has never held any office.
Hang on, did the electorate not massively
reject a bald right-winger at the recent General Election ? Yes,
but this is a different bald right-winger who believes that the
Tories lost because they were not right wing enough.
So, it was with little surprise that FirstFoot
learned that "Bankrupt" Monteith, the right wing MSP is one of the
supporters of hairless Ian Duncan Smith's efforts to become the
next leader of the Tory party.
Interestingly, "Bankrupt", a former chairman
of the Scottish Young Conservatives is co-founder of The Tuesday
Club, a "Scottish policy think tank".
This got FirstFoot thinking. Why Tuesday
Club? Here are our best guesses:
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Named after the Tuesday Club occasionally frequented
by Archie Weir in Robert Louis Stevenson's Weir of Hermiston.
In this club the young country squires met on the first Tuesday
of each month to get blotto.
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Named after an American cultural club formed by
Edinburgh born Dr. Alexander Hamilton in 1745. The clubs'
only sacrosanct bylaw was that no serious question could be
given a serious answer. One can see the attraction for a Scots
Tory in this.
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Finally, after the Tuesday Club run
by Scots lesbians in a rather smart bar in central Glasgow (includes
karaoke). |
I think that we deserve to know the truth
and rather suspect it is number 3.
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