| Tory MSP Phil Gallie announced this week to a stunned world his intention to
leave Holyrood and stand for election to the European parliament. Phil, having been an MP at Westminster before his tour of duty in Edinburgh
insisted to The JT that the time was right to move on: "Having spent the last few
years at Holyrood in total obscurity, I feel the time is right to be likewise obscure but
on the much larger European stage.
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Although I won’t technically be on the stage, I’ll be more like
waiting in the wings, memorising my lines, in case I should ever be called to give a
speech or something." Phil, who
experienced a meteoric rise to his current status as a complete nonentity, enjoyed the
patronage of the demented duchess, Margaret Thatcher.
"I well remember how, in 1987, she would sit and listen
enthralled as I explained my vision for the |
future of the Tory
Party in Scotland, and how, in 1997, I delivered on that vision by losing Ayr to
Labour."
It is thought that Phil, if elected to Strasbourg, will turn his forensic talents to
European affairs, learning to bore the arses off people on a much wider range of
mind-numbingly tedious aspects of arcane Euro-legislation that only a truly third-rate
mind could possibly think important, or, God help us, even vaguely interesting. |
