In DEFRA’s Q1 2013 lobbying disclosure, I see that DEFRA PUSS Lord de Mauley (yes! really) had the following meeting:
February: Private individual. To discuss the private keeping of primates.
Who is it that’s lobbying government for the right to keep monkeys? Not just that, who is this nameless private citizen who gets access to ministers in pursuit of their campaign for monkey freedom? I hope it’s Prince Charles. I really do.
(Less excitingly, I wonder why Jonathan Ashworth MP decided to ask the other DEFRA PUSS if they had any contracts with the Curzon Institute or Curzon Education Ltd. Going by this I think he was asking all the departments in turn.)
Slice Jon Ashworth and you’ll find the words ‘Ed Milliband’ running through him like a stick of rock, so this is actually a good sign.
yes, but what about the monkeys?
I am hoping that it is primate as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate_%28bishop%29
and that it turns our Prince Charles is keeping a bishop in his basement in a gimp suit.
Besides, # haven’t you always wanted a monkey? #
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4L3ls_6UYg
(one now has to evaluate all news stories in the context of ‘end-of-season finale for the news’ – I think bishops in gimp suits might about cut it)