To Fish, Or Not To Fish – That Was The Question

 

And our esteemed Foreign Secretary answered it par excellence with – you guessed it - another lammy – and one of his best so far....

No sooner had the e-ink dried on my last blog when he came up with his real masterstroke.

Still obviously smarting from his boss’s attempt to out-lammy him by thinking up the idea of compulsory sight tests for 5.6M drivers over 70, he cunningly used his ‘outing’ this week with US Vice President JD Vance to engineer his coup, by exploiting said gentleman's love of fishing,

To ‘forget’ to buy a fishing licence with which to entertain US 'Royalty’ at his own grace and favour lakeside at Chevening was a superb ploy…but to then actually report himself for it was …simply divine.

I suspect we’ll not see the comedic like for some time....

His celebrated 'inner voice' should indeed now be telling him "...Well done David.....Once again you’ve managed to raise the nation’s morale another notch at a time when 'all around them is dark'..."

It just goes to show  - you can’t 'out-lammy the lammy’….

And with this government, that’s really saying something !

First published 14.8.25; Revised 26.8.25

Update 15.8.25: I've just had a notification from the Political Satirists Association Awards Steering Committee (PISARTISTC) that the FS's latest effort has been unanimously nominated  for the 'Lammy of the Month' award for August.  This is indeed a special occasion, as the entry has also achieved first in class as a 'Double Lammy'. Under the Committee's strict rules, entries only qualify for this category if two related, but separate, lammies occur in quick succession. Mere consequentiality between the two is not sufficient, however, and there needs to be wilful intent on the part of the originator for both lammies individually as separate events. I'm confident this one will find its way into the Guinness Book of Records, and it must also be  a strong contender for 'Lammy of the Year' award at the society's congress in December. (We shouldn't, of course, underestimate the competition, of which there is plenty...and not just amongst Labour ranks, either !)


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