Calm down, nothing too exciting – one of Dave’s A-listers, Judith Symes, has crawled inside Gordon’s big tent. She stood for the Tories in Brighton Kemptown in 2005, coming within 2,373 votes of unseating the sitting Labour MP. The Brighton Argus has more. (Hat-tip to Guido.)
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Nice language, “crawled” How would you have put it if she had joined the Lib-Dems
That she had fluttered inside elegantly as if blessed with the wings of an angel glittering with gold-dust.
You see, I’m just as happy being impartial with poetry as with prose.
What do you mean, ‘as if’?
We have plenty of angels whose wings glitter with gold dust waiting and ready to go.