Trixy has picked up this little number from Mary Honeyball's blog.
Yesterday UKRep, the UK Permanent Representation to the European Union, held their traditional reception to welcome British MEPs to the European Parliament. It was, for me, a deeply depressing experience. Not only were most of the UKIP MEPs present; they were also accompanied by young women in fairly flimsy purple dresses... It brought home to me just how far Britain has moved away from support for EuropeI am not sure what depressed her most. The slow realisation that the people of Britain no longer want to play the great European game, or the fact that the UKIP MEP's were accompanied by attractive women.
It reminds me of a passage in Republican Party Reptile. PJ O'Rourke is looking at some demo out of his window, feeling a little nostalgic about his days demonstrating in the 60's. The crowd outside were uniformly ugly, and the demo was not a success. He then remembered that having young attractive women on your side was a sign that your cause was likely to win.
Here is Ms. Honeyball
And here is one of the girls she is talking about
Who would you invite to a party?
Update
Iain Dale joins the chorus of contempt, rightly taking her to task for crap statistics,
"Over a million construction workers are set to work on the site over the next
three years"
A million!!! You what?
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This has long been Eursoc's criteria for judging which side to support in difficult foreign conflicts. The beautiful Lebanese women perched on their boyfriends shoulders, or their opponents, who look like Eric Cantona in a headscarf? Irans attractive, middle class protestors, or the beetle-browed witches who supported the ancien régime? A tough one.
Seems reasonable
Who is the beauty ?
When I read that on Hairy's blog, I imagined that V & E would have been two of the purple-bedecked ones, funny enough.
You couldn't invite Hairy to a party ... she'd hog the buffet.
Bless, poor Hairyballs, having to mix with elected MEPs (and their young ladies) who are not in her party...meowwwww.
"Hairy Moneyball" - that's no way to speak of a woman no matter how much you may despise her. Pour scorn on her words and deeds, but not what you may think of her appearance.
Elfreda,
That is her nickname in the parliament. I haven't the faintest idea what you think it means it is merely a spoonerism on her name.
What pray is a "Moneyball"? I guess it is about as meaningful as a 'wonderwall'
Beg your pardon! I thought you were being like the journalists who called Susan Boyle a hairy angel!
Cyprus July of 1974 URGENT: to the unions of R.A.F. discharged officers
http://ellhnkaichaos.blogspot.com/2009/07/cyprus-july-of-1974.html
http://bellum-mentalis.blogspot.com/
It is not true that "Britain has moved away from support for Europe" whatever that means. The British are European. What we don't support is the EU: that self appointed, corrupt, anti-democratic, 4th reich ideology that is garroting Europe.
Budgie, yes you are of course right. Pedantic, true but right
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