[BITList] Has Brexit has finally reached peak Wodehouse?

[John Feltham]

For PG Wodehouse fans.




From a correspondent…


This is copied and quoted from a Facebook post.
(I don't know the cove who wrote it.) 

Do you agree?

Posted only for fun, not the politics involved.




It occurs to me, that with this, Brexit has finally reached 
peak Wodehouse.

In Theresa May, you have an authoritarian matriarch who 
can't handle being defied: The Aunt Agatha/Lady Constance 
role.

In Daniel Hannan, you have a fussy, dislikable, unsympathetic 
jobsworth but not actually strictly bad, the ultimate Rupert 
Baxter.

In Ian Dunkin' Donuts, you have someone utterly self interested 
who apparently gets bored and nods off in court cases, sort of 
where you expect Tuppy or Bingo to end up in later life.

In the Supreme Court, you have an odd combination of Galahad 
Threepwood and Sir Watkyn Basset, with names like "Lord Sumption" 
and "Lady Hale".

Nigel Farage *is* the man who would be Spode, right down to 
the potential Lordship.

Davis and Starmer are sort of walk on characters roped in by events. 
Starmer is probably struggling with his love for Sarah Olney, while 
Davis just wants to get back to his library and collection of rare 
Tunisian cow creamers.

A memorable moment is an argument over the pronunciation of 
the word "De Keyser", which practically could be dropped into 
a Wodehouse novel wholesale.

And our protagonist now is a man with the name "Jolyon Maugham", 
a name that cries out to be shortened to "Jolly" by page 3. 


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