Be very, very scared of a snap election
It was Vance Joy in his hit 2013 song ‘Riptide’ who said: “I was scared of dentists and the dark. I was scared of pretty girls and starting conversations.” I sympathise with such remarks. I mean, even the prospect of talking to pretty girls is enough to turn me into a nervous, nail-biting wreck of a man.
- ▪It was Vance Joy in his hit 2013 song ‘Riptide’ who said: “I was scared of dentists and the dark.
- ▪I was scared of pretty girls and starting conversations.” I sympathise with such remarks.
- ▪I mean, even the prospect of talking to pretty girls is enough to turn me into a nervous, nail-biting wreck of a man.
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It was Vance Joy in his hit 2013 song ‘Riptide’ who said: “I was scared of dentists and the dark. I was scared of pretty girls and starting conversations.” I sympathise with such remarks. I mean, even the prospect of talking to pretty girls is enough to turn me into a nervous, nail-biting wreck of a man. But whilst these things are scary, they do not come close to what I would regard as the greatest fear of them all – a snap general election. It may seem, at first, to be a far fetched idea. Burnham will find himself in Number 10 in just a matter of weeks, armed with an ensemble of more than 400 MPs, all of whom view him as some type of messianic saviour.
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