Sunday Seven

The most popular post this week was Conservative Vandalised Billboards which I followed-up yesterday with the Big Society posts (and see here). Related was the interest in the TBH’s polling results in my Cornwall’s Tories are Stuffed. Also this week, I drew attention to Conservative PPC for Camborne and Redruth George Eustice’s pitch on his Green credentials. Mr Eustice might care to use his influence as an ex-speech writer for cycling, sledging Dave, to have a word in his leader’s shell-like about how Cameron lets the plane take the strain. Oh, and I’m still waiting a reply from Mr Derek Thomas about Mr Chris Grayling’s endorsement of homophobia.

Of Mr Eustice and British Lop pigs

No sooner do I draw attention to the connection between Tories in Cornwall and landowners and farmers (see my post, ‘Cornwall’s Tories are stuffed‘), than, obligingly, one pops up to confirm it in the shape of former strawberry farmer George Eustice, Tory candidate for Camborne and Redruth, and former press secretary to something of the night Mr Michael Howard and The Toff. Mr Eustice is keen to tell us of how deep his roots reach into the local soil with a guided tour of his family’s farm. Also down on the Eustice farm this weekend along with South Devon breed beef have been ‘old friends’ of George’s – one from the Conservative Press Office, no less.

‘Food yards, not food miles’ is George’s election battle cry. Well, it  may help though I should have thought that the voters of Camborne and Redruth have rather more important things on their minds this election than the news that Mr Eustice’s pork derives from free-range British Lop pigs. Like how best to use tactical voting to send Tory parliamentary candidates back to the milking sheds.