WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, was taking the weekend off. Then Theresa Mayhem offered a job to a gaffe-prone ex-MP
Like a bad penny, Gavin Barwell keeps turning up.
Dear mercy, is this among the more troubling side-effects of Thursday’s General Election?
Barwell had been rejected by the electorate of Croydon Central on Thursday, after seven years as their under-achieving MP.
But Barwell’s job at No10 doesn’t look likely to be a long-term appointment.
“He doesn’t have the swearing ability of a Malcolm Tucker for a start,” a Croydon Tory colleague said on hearing of the appointment.
And Barwell’s time in office will be dependent on how long his boss lasts: Mayhem now owes her position as Prime Minister to a handful of bigots, homophobes and friends of terrorists from the DUP. More than 60 per cent of respondents to a poll on a Conservative Party website today have demanded May’s immediate resignation.
The job vacancy arose for Barwell when Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill stood down from their job share after being labelled “toxic” and blamed for the party’s catastrophic performance in the snap election.
That election had cost Barwell his job as MP for Croydon Central.
He probably owes his new position to his long-time backing from Lord Cashcroft, the billionaire tax-avoider and former Tory Party deputy chairman.
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Ashcroft is reckoned to be among the 40 richest people in the country. Or the richest in Belize, given Cashcroft’s penchant for off-shore tax avoidance schemes.
May announced the appointment today by saying: “I’m delighted that Gavin Barwell accepted the role as my chief of staff.”
She clearly doesn’t read Inside Croydon. “He has been a first-class minister and is widely respected.” Hahahahaha.
“He will bring considerable experience of the party to the post. As I said yesterday, I want to reflect on the election and why it did not deliver the result I hoped for.”
For his part, Barwell said, “I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to serve as her chief of staff.”
The snivelling little brown-noser added that he believes Mayhem “is the best person to heal the divisions in our country that last year’s referendum and the General Election have laid bare”. Presumably, he has forgotten who was Home Secretary in the Cabinet when the EU Referendum was called, or who called the election.
Theresa Mayhem gives her chief of staff her order for lunch: “I want a BLT from Subway, about this big”
It is entirely possible, following the appointment, that Barwell may seek to hire one of his closest aides from Croydon to work with him in No10: Mario Creatura, mainly so that there’s someone in his office who knows how to switch on the Chief of Staff’s laptop.
The appointment also delays the publication of the sequel to Barwell’s 2016 memoir, How To Win A Marginal Seat with the 2017 account of the election which sources close to Barwell say has the working title of How To Lose A Marginal Seat By 5,000 Votes.
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You couldn’t make it up if you tried. First, one Tory Prime Minister shoots himself in the foot after calling an unnecessary referendum. Then his successor shoots herself in both feet after calling an unnecessary General Election. Then she appoints, as her Chief of Staff, someone who has just been defeated by an astonishing margin and someone who has been totally ineffective in his previous post. What did Oscar Wilde call foxhunting: The Unspeakable in pursuit of the Inedible?
This is the Incapable in Pursuit of the Improbable. Both Barwell and his Boss, for the short time that they are likely to continue in power, suffer from a bizarre mixture of Distorted Perception combined with Delusions of Adequacy. Its a worthy subject for a really noir sitcom and can only end in tears.
You couldn’t make this one up either. How did “The Few” con the ” The Many” to vote for Jeremy Corbyn last week? Result: A disaster, that you and I will both pay for one way or another.
Can the imaginary Walter Cronxite (dubbed the Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old Croydon Town) ever stop his hatred of Gavin Barwell? What has the defeated MP for Croydon Central ever done to him? The “Phantom” should be glad to see the back of him, but even now after an embarrassing election defeat, the raspberry blowing continues. Yet Barwell’s appointment wont affect anyone in Croydon whatsoever. In fact it’s probable that he never wants to meet anyone from this part of the country again, and who can blame him! Sad times Walter, time to get a new target. Try someone called Jones. Good Welsh name that, they love blowing raspberries at the English there, especially when they beat us at rugby!
“What has the defeated MP for Croydon Central ever done to him?”
Threatened a libel action?
You really haven’t been paying close enough attention for the past seven years of the government’s austerity, cuts and incompetence, have you?
Ah but you forget, these days losing is the new winning. (Others have explained this better than I can, see the media – they get paid for these thangs but I don’t, but I think it involves saying the opposite of what you really mean loudly, so that eventually people will be taken in by it). Which does explain Barwells amazing resurgence.
I have no idea how you can describe him as a ‘snivelling little brown noser ” as there cannot be any evidence for that. (See; that’s how it works)
Gaffin’Gav not fond of swearing?. I feel a small ripple of sympathy for this hard-working family man arising in my bosom.
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