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Putrescent politicians gobble Churchill’s rotting mast
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CONTINUING with last week’s theme of dubious types giving up the fags — or, in this case, cigars and being lauded for their misdeeds — much has been made of the mythical Churchillian spirit in recent days with the 50th anniversary of his state interment.
It was an occasion which seemingly allowed politicians of all stripes to attempt to nail their colours to his rotting mast.
The Tories of course have been all over it like flies on excrement, boasting about being the rightful inheritors of his political mantle.
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