How dare he!

[bilbobaggins]

Parking yacht -

Oh dear. This will upset Libby Purves, one of my household goddesses, who’s a serious sailor ... but ... yachts.

Rounding a lovely, lonely spit on Bryher, we came upon a little bay littered — yes, that’s the word — with sailing dinghies and yachts. Why do the English find these garishly-painted things, bobbing about, picturesque? Is a field full of parked cars picturesque? A bay of yachts is a glorified aquatic parking lot, many of them — like a Porsche or BMW — calculated to make a statement about their owners.

Doesn't Matthew Parris know by now that spending August on a yacht gets one's name mentioned more frequently in high places, and demonstrably can lead to being recalled to Westminster with a shiny new car, a shiny new job, and a shiny new peerage?

I'm wondering if he could be persuaded to 'step up to the crease', should his party and country need his undoubted skills again soon.....

 

[BlueSkyNick]

The guy is a toss pot best ignored at all times.

 

[bilbobaggins]

I was hoping for a more detailed argument than that, AuldNick!

 

[David_Jersey]

Doesn't Matthew Parris know by now that spending August on a yacht gets one's name mentioned more frequently in high places, and demonstrably can lead to being recalled to Westminster with a shiny new car, a shiny new job, and a shiny new peerage?

I'm wondering if he could be persuaded to 'step up to the crease', should his party and country need his undoubted skills again soon.....

I look at his column now and again , seems to have made himself a new career out of saying what he thinks others want to hear. and often I agree with him Always a spot for a parrot boy back in the fold.

Guess his latest comments are him surfing the zeitgeist of petty minded jealousy masquerading as the Puritan majority

I do like Libby Purves on boat stuff and although some (??!) of my views are to the right of Genghis Kahn , I do find her politically nearly as scarey as Ann Leslie (who BTW up to last week I genuinely thought was long since dead - and then late night she popped up on the BBC I've seen better looking corpses than Ann Leslie. Sh#t me wife still looks better than her - and she's been dead the thick end of 2 years. and was cremated ).