This morning I found a hastily-scrawled note wedged through my letterbox, smeared with pate and Montrachet.
People of London,
I think it’s appalling that you, as voters, should have to choose between a drink-sodden, priapic, bumptious right-wing simpleton and a wily appeaser-of-unpleasant-extremists with an unhealthy fixation on handling pond life. Why should you have to choose between those two? Especially when there’s a candidate who offers all of that, and more.
Me.
Now, I’m more well-known for my association with my countryside constituency of Buckland and Ruttington. My campaign to bring back village idiots, and to stop them being replaced with one, large, out-of-town superdunce near Aylesbury was notable for its enthusiasm, if not its success.
However, as an MP I have spent a lot of time in London. As much time as you could afford. I have dined in your many fantastic restaurants, been thrown out of your many inviting zoos, and, on one occasion, been held in remand at your beautiful HMP Wormwood Scrubses.
I have reason to believe that my candidacy would be supported by a huge range of people: from the very rich to the very prosperous. Some have suggested that I might be unduly influenced by my connections to United Beef. I admit that I do sit on the board of United Beef, but I strenuously reject that that has had any influence on my support for compulsory Bovril in maths lessons; the building of the 620-foot long Wall Of Cowmeat to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee; or the opening of St. Ermintrudes Beef-cademy School. I reject the insinuation that I have been injecting subliminal messages in my statements to promote the eating of the finest of meats because of my steak in the company.
So, in short, I am looking for the names of 330 London voters willing to support my candidacy. If I can find them, I can moo-ve on to fundraising (asking United Beef for a cheque).
So, if you want to see a change in London, pop your name below. Or subscribe to my You Tubes (Our Tubes?). Or my Twits (@sirianbowlermp).
After all, isn’t it time that London had someone who wasn’t a joke candidate?
Yours,
Sir Ian Bowler, MP for Buckland & Ruttington, The Lesser Of Three Evils
So there you have it. I am reliably informed that if he can get the 330 names, Sir Ian will make a serious attempt to “clean up my utility room. And then London.”
What do you think, London?
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January 25, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Jon Mundy (@jonmundy)
yep. He gets my vote. Glorious. I will have certain pecuniary demands though should he gain office. won’t go into any detail here, but suffice to say it’s nothing that can’t be resolved with a large brown envelope behind City Hall.
January 25, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Nathaniel Tapley
He says. “Let’s just call it ‘the usual’.”
January 25, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Ben Hewitt
I don’t live in London. I live in Suffolk. But I should have a say on voting for London Mayor!
January 25, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Nathaniel Tapley
Yes, you should. As Mayor, Sir Ian will ensure that everyone, everywhere, from foetus to long-dead, can vote for him.
January 25, 2012 at 8:45 pm
James Ross
If you are running I will seriously nominate.
January 25, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Nathaniel Tapley
Thank you. Just 328 to go…
February 24, 2012 at 2:39 pm
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February 24, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Philip
I think it should be “the least of three evils”. Were you perchance educated by the State?