This is a public service announcement. There has been a ground frost, so you can now eat your parsnips, unless you’re French, in which case you are likely to turn your nose up and wonder why the British get excited about animal fodder.
Parsnips after the frost, lifted from the ground and eaten quickly have a unique sweetness that you don’t get from shop bought.
Today, I’m missing my allotment for the first time. I’m also looking as several conservative MPs tweets and thinking, ‘Fine words butter no parsnips.’
Never has anything looked more corrupt and sleazy than yesterday’s vote to protect Owen Patterson (and therefore giving corruption a green light to all in the future) and the MPs who are now tweeting that they abstained, as if we should be proud of them for almost doing the right thing are making me twitch.
It’s pointless too. Like a parsnip in summer. The standards committee had already decided that the MP was guilty of taking money to lobby. He maintained that he was bringing the issue up because he passionately believed in it and was nothing to do with the £100000 they pay him a year on top of his MPs salary. The Conservative party whipped its MPs to vote against the next step which would mean a by-election. This would give the final accountability back to his constituents, making it a government for the people. His constituents probably would believe all his arguments and the majority would vote him back in, so what is the point of taking away this step that makes parliament accountable to us?
Who else has mouldy parsnips in the bottom of their fridge?
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