Little do these hapless wannabes know that the only place they are heading for is the
knacker's yard.
PLAID Cymru yesterday refused to apologise for calling Labour Caerphilly candidate Jeff Cuthbert a "three-legged carthorse" who should be sent to the "
knacker's yard".
We might be able to fix some of them, while the others are destined for the
knacker's yard," said Assem el-Leithy, one of the ministerial employees engaged in this task.
So, whilst I have seethed inwardly over cut after cut (after cut), the people concerned have quietly filed onto the van taking them to the
knacker's yard. Oh for the boss of a quango, or a loose cannon amongst his staff, to march in front of a TV camera and tell the minister concerned (or a generic Treasury Department) exactly where they can stick their government-funded post.
The weather was dreich and cold, the hoops - the 40 per cent rule - proved insurmountable, the referendum bombed, the government fell (helped to the
knacker's yard by a crazy decision by the SNP to back Mrs Thatcher in the subsequent vote of confidence) and a long, dark night descended on Scotland.
(Even if it didn't win it would do better than the
knacker's yard candidates usually backed by your truly.) The fearless bridge divers of Betws y Coed taking an unexpected gold for synchronised belly-flopping at the Beijing Games?
If we don't start taking our health and more importantly, our children's health more seriously, I fear this tiny island will be engulfed by hordes of puffing, wheezing over-weight blimps fit only for the
knacker's yard.
As you can see from a pic taken seconds later, it looks like the nag he backed is heading for the
knacker's yard.
Should Corbyn look a long way from No10 when the Tories switch horses, he'll deserve the
knacker's yard. Yet in Westminster, a band of Labour rebels will do whatever it takes for him to fail...
"It looks like the horse may be bolting towards Brum; but if we have anything to do with it, the plans will end up in the
knacker's yard."
They're clueless as to what the majority of the electorate thinks, wants or needs and they still don't understand that Britain is fast hurtling towards the
knacker's yard and that if we don't find a way out of the financial crisis - we're finished.
Unless the owners quickly get a grip the end of the road might be the
knacker's yard!
Our domestic Parliament, as presently constituted, deserves to go to the
knacker's yard as well.
Soon two of them would be shot through the head and dragged off to the
knacker's yard.