Champagne Socialist or Dark Prince

 What did you wake up to on the radio this morning?  Well the Conservative party are using an old fashioned term to question as to why Mandelson, I think we would all agree he has been stripped of his knighthood, managed to get the top position of ambassador to the US.  The question the Conservatives are asking is a 'humble address'.  We always love our medieval past don't you know.  So I may use the term popinjay  to describe our flash dude Mandelson.  The only thing I can remember him for is the expensive wallpaper scandal ;), what a small mind I have. Which happened by the way in 1998 - Undisclosed Home Loan.  Just to balance the books,  the Johnson's arriving at number 10 also put some dreadful wall paper on the walls as well,  Court room gossip and all that,  I think the interior designer they employed went a little over the top.

There will be such a rollicking in Parliament today as Mandelson bad deeds are revealed.  But wait that other figure that has figured in the news lately.  Andrew, he has also lost his title, was last seen riding a horse round Windsor castle before he scooted off in a range rover (or maybe it was a humble Kia) this week.  His wife, Sarah Ferguson is squeaking poverty, though she has a property in London worth a couple of million.

Apologies for bringing the above newspaper onto my blog but it made me realise how every drop of supposed scandal is extracted every day.  Also, someone said yesterday, we  should really be concentrating on the women Epstein humiliated in such a gross way.  And perhaps take a deeper look at how our 'betters' are conducting their lives.

A humble address is a formal communication from the British Parliament to the monarch, typically used to request the production of documents or information from government departments. It is a rarely used parliamentary procedure that allows members of the House of Commons or House of Lords to petition the monarch for information, which is understood to be binding on the House. This procedure is often invoked during significant events, such as the King's Speech, where the House debates the contents of the speech and requests the monarch to direct the government to produce relevant documents.

I forgot:  What makes me a good critic?  I bought my daughter a book, which arrived yesterday but I haven't seen yet on 'English Interiors - slightly eccentric of course.....  But it reminded me of coffee book tables and Laura Ashley.