J D Vance visit - peaceful protest meet-up Tues 4pm

Sat 16 Aug, 07:57 (last edited on Sat 16 Aug, 07:58)

Mr Sherwood, in an attempt to enlighten you: Charlbury can't possibly be a deniizen of anything. But its population are, mostly, "proponents of" or "adherents to" Liberal Democrat values. Charlbury's elected MP might be a proponent of LibDem values, but he probably isn't because he takes the Labour whip. Charlbury's County Councillor is certainly a proponent of LibDem values, but I'm very reluctant to disclose what she does with her whips.At home of course: as a denizen of Charlbury, she's far too polite to use whips in public.

And Charlburians - both denizen and inative-born - aren't remotely confused about wherher they object to JDV's politics or his security bodyguard. Any true Charlburian can hold two views at once. 

From all of which, of course, it'd be clear to all Charlburians that you don't live in Charlbury. Not just because your MP must be one of our local LibDem MPs: Charlie Maynard (Witney constituency) or Calum Miller (Woodstock constituency, and most Charlburians try to foreget Calum's also got some responsibility for Bicester, because what true Charlburian would ever admit they sometimes shop in Bicester Village?) Nor because you're confused what "denizen" means. 

But because Charlburians' real objection to welcoming JDV into our beloved Town hasn't been his politics or his bodyguard. It's the ****ing huge vans  those boduguards bring with them. Which don't just annoy our fellow Charlburians, but drag our County Councillor into  (suitably discrete) fury.

Because, she's not an ordinary Councillor, but the Leader of Oxfordshire County Council. Those vans wouldn't just have annoyed her: those vans had diplomatic immunity. So she 'd never have collected those ****ing huge fines  her charming traffic wardens inflict on illegal parkers. What would she have done with the ****ing huge income those wardens collect?

She'd have repaired the potholes a century of Tory skinflintery has inflicted on our once-Tory shire. And what really gets the goat of all true Charlburians? Partly the prospect of ever again electing a Tory to any representative position. Partly the prospect of ever again worrying about the wrong sort of American Vice-President going to the Bull (or the Bell, or the Rose, or Barry's place, or the Football Club, or...). But above all potholes.