Toilet humour of the 'Turnip Taliban'
I popped into see Sir Jeremy Bagge today, the leader of the so-called Turnip Taliban, who is leading the critics at tonight's meeting of the South West Norfolk Conservative Association against the selection of Liz Truss.
Sir Jeremy showed me a couple of wonderful old paintings which portray his great great grandfather being elected a Conservative MP in 1837 and 1847, in the market square in Swaffham, where tonight's meeting takes place.
And I can also reveal - exclusively, I hope - that the walls of Sir Jeremy's loo are covered with wood-carvings of couples having sex in all sorts of different positions.
So I think we can take Sir Jeremy at his word when he says his opposition to Ms Truss is nothing to do with her sexual behaviour.
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Comment number 1.
At 18th Nov 2009, stanilic wrote:I have no objection to people `cottaging', if that is their inclination, but I don't really want to know about it.
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At 18th Nov 2009, barry white wrote:The modern conservative party, full of new ideas and MP's of the people.
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It does make me so tired these days with Mr Cameron going on about have they changed in updated. Only to the 1950's by this post
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