{"id":5628,"date":"2017-10-05T08:33:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2017-10-05T08:33:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:33:43","slug":"may-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5628\/","title":{"rendered":"May in a Nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Security at future Conservative events is to be reviewed after a comedian was able to get within yards of the prime minister and hand her a mock P45 redundancy notice.<\/p>\n

Prankster Simon Brodkin – also known as his TV persona Lee Nelson – was arrested by Greater Manchester Police after briefly interrupting the PM and giving her a sheaf of paper he claimed was from Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n

He was later released, with the police saying he had “legitimate accreditation” to attend the event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a pic:<\/p>\n

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You know what grates most about this? Theresa May is one of those authoritarian busybodies who constantly demands extra powers to snoop on our electronic communications and wants to micromanage every aspect of our lives in the name of security…yet she heads an organisation that can’t even manage the simple task of vetting attendees at her own speech and chucking out a troublemaker.<\/p>\n

Why is it that those who profess to know what’s best for us, and want to tell us what to do every five minutes, are so utterly incompetent themselves? The sooner the Conservatives ditch May, the better. What a useless woman.<\/p>\n

(The stunt itself was about as lame as it gets. This is British comedy in 2017.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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