(Rory jigging on his website. If you look carefully you can see the twine holding up his suit trousers…)
You know sometimes I think that this blog wouldn’t exist but for the sheer ineptitude of the Conservative members’ ranks…
Fresh-faced Tory MP Rory Stewart, former deputy governor of an Iraqi province and ex-Foreign Office man, has admitted that it was “very foolish” to brand his constituents as yokels. In an interview with the Scottish Sun, the new MP had previously endeared himself to constituents by saying that Penrith and the Borders constituency was “pretty primitive”, populated by “people holding up their trousers with bits of twine”. Apparently, (warning: desperate political excuse coming up) Mr Stewart was simply attempting to highlight the fact that Cumbria is not a wealthy area ripe for spending cuts.
However, he has hit out at the Sunday Mirror’s headline that accused him of calling Cumbrian residents “primitive”. Blimey, those red tops, always putting words into your mouth eh Rory?
