Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

“a weird coincidence”
- Aaron McLear, Governor Schwarzenegger’s press secretary, trying to play down an email Schwarzenegger sent to one of San Francisco’s Democratic Assemblymen.  At first sight, the message that Schwarzenegger sent to Tom Ammiano, explaining why he’d vetoed a boring bill about financing the city’s port, seems straightforward enough.  However, a vertical reading of [...]

“For demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa”
- the reason why managers at Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank and Central Bank of Iceland won the Economics prize at the IgNobel awards – an annual spoof version of the Nobel Prizes given out by the Harvard-based humour magazine ‘Annals of [...]

“Hedgehogs. Why can’t they just share the hedge?”
- Dan Antopolski, who won the prize for the funniest joke of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe with this one-liner.  Nine comedy critics sat through thousands of jokes before choosing 27 for viewers to vote on. More than 3,000 comedy fans voted, with almost 18% choosing Antopolski’s one-liner.  The Top 10 [...]

“There may have been something sticky on his hands but it was only for a few seconds that he touched the prime minister.”
- (I’ll leave this completely genuine quote to your imagination)

‘Not even Santa’s elves can count on job security’

Dear readers,
If any of you struggle for the motivation to work today after last night’s England horror show, perhaps this video might help you make an early exit from the office:
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