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Friday, August 27, 2004

thatcher

as if the mark thatcher story couldn't get better - it has.
the evening standard last night ran an article about mark and his friends and their involvement in the attempted coup. it painted a nice picture of how maggie went to visit mark for a christmas gathering at his home in south africa, where she chatted to all the guests. guests who seemed to be there to be tapped up to fund the coup.
of course the only ones talking about it are the ones who either saw sense and were never going to get involved or were too broke or too late with the cash to get involved.
after profiling one of the leaders an old etonian ex SAS soldier, simon mann, the standard asks what drove these men on to plan to stage a coup.
now pay close attention here there will be a quiz at the end - but don't worry its multiple choice and there will be some clues.
so did they choose to stage the coup because:
1] they are middle aged duffers who sniffed one last chance at adventure
(very very wilbur smith)
2] they saw a chance to overthrow a nasty dictator.
3] they did it for the money.

ok the clues:
equatorial guinea is an oil rich country.
simon mann apparently stood to gain £10 million pounds, his second in commands a £1 million each.

now which do you think it was did they organise the coup because of 1 , 2 or 3.

oh and i nearly forget the absolute best bit of it all. there is a wonga (for that is what it is being called) list that names the donors to the cause and on it there appears everyone's favourite dodgy tory. yes that's right i am talking about the disgraced peer himself the one the only jeffery archer. just when you thought archer had learnt from past mistakes its a case of (cue Brittany) "....ooops i did it again..."
the silly part about it for me - is it just endears him more to me no matter what madness archer gets up to i cant help but like the man. i know its a bizarre weakness on my part.
well perhaps it's because he is married to the fragrant mary? (she is part of my top tory totty list - one day i will explain it to you all)

still if there is someone bowing before a craven image right now offering up thanks it has to be david (i am having an affair) blunkett, at least for a moment or two no one is paying him any attention.
poor old peter mandelson must be cursing his luck that this stuff never happens when he has fallen into shit creek without the paddle.

the only question left to ask is will freddy forsythe write the novel of the failed coup.

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