http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2772 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 22:28:48 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=2772#post-8125 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 07:17:30 +0000 saltire 8125@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sat 9:30am.Standing outside the railway station in a sleepy Kent village.The sun is shining,the air is filled with annoying birdsong.<br /> I've arranged over the internet to meet someone selling a piece of furniture. After about twenty minutes a shabbily dressed gentleman sidles up behind me and introduces himself 'Good Morning,I'm Tony the others will be here in a minute.' Sure enough , the others arrive.More 4x4s than you can shake a stick at.My 10yr Corsa looking decidedly out of place. A group of twenty or so assembles before the great man himself arrives The local Tory MP. His agent brays out instructions to the assembled re-leafleting etc.<br /> Tony whispers to me that he,Tony, is far more right wing than the others.I nod in agreement.<br /> The MP addresses me 'Thanks for coming to help' Errr..sorry but I'm here to meet Clint McCabe.Right on cue Clint arrives in a bright yellow MG,dressed for a night out with Randolph Scott. 'Saltire ? Saltire ?' That's me I reply,to giggles from the crowd.<br /> 'I've got your leather chair in the car ' he announces followed by a potted family history of ranches in Idaho and Arizona.Crowd smirks.<br /> 'It's a reproduction Clint'<br /> 'Yeah but it looks real'<br /> 'No it fucking doesn't Clint'<br /> 'It really doesn't' chimes in the agent<br /> 'Who asked you Adolph ?'<br /> We agree a price then spend an eternity trying to load it into my Corsa.Clint minces off toward his car, stops for a second looks the MP up and down disapprovingly and he's gone.The crowd parts slowly to allow me to exit.Tony the shabby fascist gives me a smile of sorts.They're not all locked up yet.</p> <p>p.s. anybody want to buy a 'real' leather armchair ? </p>