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Who killed Bambi?
How pleasant and delightful to witness the rehabilitation of the word “pipsqueak” back into the English language. Master of the vernacular and West Brom MP, Tom Watson, restored this beautiful word into general usage but was then forced to retract it. With a reluctant apology, and justifying its employment against the hopeless Michael Gove, Watson said: “It was like looking at Bambi. So I shot him.”
Watson, clearly furious at the BSF cock-up, should be given some credit for uttering this charming, if slightly archaic, epithet instead of some of the more “maritime” appellations heard in the pubs, clubs and staff rooms of landlocked West Bromwich East and greater Sandwell. The anger he displayed in the commons is but a foretaste of what is to come as this coalition government embark on a suicidal voyage of cuts, alienation and betrayal. Gove may have shown contrition for the “mistake”, but the decision still stands and the knockabout fun seen in the commons is a sideshow that has taken attention away from the fact that already derelict schools will be allowed to fall down around the ears of our children…