6 links have been added on 2 ideas about #may.
  1. Chief whips are the real chaos merchants. Quote from a former tory chief bully boy:

    “Problems involving members “might be debt, or it might be a scandal involving small boys”.

    “They would come and ask if we could help,” Fortescue said. “And if we could we did, and we would do everything we could, because we could store up brownie points.

    “That’s one of the reasons we would get a chap out of trouble – because he’d then be ours forever-more.”

  2. What would it take for other towns to do the same, Lewes has its history but Guy Fawkes has fans around the nation – and only a few of them realise it was a set-up job by the ruling protestants, to vilify Catholics – I mean, they hired out the rooms under parliament and then caught him just as he was about to light the powder – pull the other one.

  3. Didn’t realise it was that hectic – Lewes Bonfire: The Sussex town famed for burning effigies of hated public figures
    Donald Trump, David Cameron and Jeremy Clarkson have all gone up in flames as part of wild 5 November celebrations…

  4. I read this one, which gives the impression they should be watched around the clock. Since Thatcher reinvented the role as “cabinet enforcers” and my local MP was a tory chief whip, no MP is likely to get a free vote. Great book btw.

  5. richb

    Please read this book to discover exactly why we should never go down this route