Saturday 25 July 2009

Young Conservative

Fun post from Dan Hannan a few days ago that I've only just clocked:
A heart-warming email arrives from a constituent:

"I recently asked my friend’s little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be Prime Minister some day. Both of her parents, Labour supporters, were standing there, so I asked her, ‘If you were Prime Minister what would be the first thing you would do?’

She replied, ‘I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.’

Her parents beamed.

‘Splendid: what a worthy goal.’ I told her ‘But you don’t have to wait until you’re Prime Minister to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I’ll pay you £50. Then I’ll take you over to the supermarket where that homeless fellow hangs out, and you can give him the £50 to use toward food and a new house.’

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked: ‘Why doesn’t the homeless man come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the £50.

I said, ‘Welcome to the Conservative Party.’

Her parents still aren’t speaking to me."
Ho ho.

I get the distinct impression from the syntax and vocabulary that it was originally an American story that's been lifted off the net and recast. So it might not strictly be true, if I'm right. But it's still pretty darned good either way.

1 comment:

  1. It certainly raised a chuckle. I also enjoyed his post on Agincourt. Luckily, socialism hadn't been invented then or it would have been ten bowmen per longbow and the result would be very different. As history has proven time and again, when our soldiers are properly equipped there is no better country at kicking arse and taking names.

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