{"id":1073,"date":"2010-05-04T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T16:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2010-05-04T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T16:11:04","slug":"poor-little-rich-gays-take-to-the-hustings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"Poor Little Rich Gays Take to the Hustings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday 4th<\/sup> May 2010<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing for it \u2013 I\u2019m going to have to vote. You can\u2019t just not.<\/p>\n

What to do?\u00a0 What to do?<\/p>\n

Poor Little Rich Gays like to glint and prance. Terrible to be pinned down. Do you know a poet called T.S.Eliot? Awful grim home-life, boiled, grey dinners, basement dining room in South Kensington. Well, he wrote a poem usually referred to as \u2018Prufrock\u2019. It\u2019s a monologue of a rather nothing little man. But he did quite refuse to be \u2018formulated on a pin.\u2019<\/p>\n

On the other hand, to endlessly evade and flit and work the fan…<\/p>\n

Fergus Strachan, partner of Angus Willis, the cookery writer, himself lawyer and botox enthusiast, is a Lib Dem. He was interviewed on the Today Programme yesterday by Sir Wilfred Self. Lib Dem, Fergus said, combines \u2018most beautifully\u2019 freedom and equality. That is the freedom to lawyer in Lincoln\u2019s Inn, take mini-breaks in country house hotels in Norfolk and longer breaks in South Africa with cosmetic procedures thrown in. Nothing wrong with that.<\/p>\n

But what about the \u2018equality\u2019 bit? I fear the Lib Dems. Will they not tax and level and turn us grey?<\/p>\n

Nation of small silver car-owners<\/p>\n

On Friday last I sought enlightenment at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, long-established, \u2018alternative\u2019 gay venue, shabby red plush, something of a throwback. It was Queer Question Time with our own adorable Rufus Pitman, that dull policeman who was on \u2018I\u2019m a Celebrity\u2019, Shelley Cooper, Linda Bellos and Darren Johnson MEP. \u00a0Lord Arrowby, running the country in the absence of ministers during the election campaign now more than ever, amazingly was present, in tight, tight frockage. He looked tired but \u2018to airy thinness beat\u2019 by work. I mean refined, beautified…<\/p>\n

We had to write our questions on cards beforehand. Mine was: \u2018What should be the minimum wage for a Poor Little Rich Gay and how is the new government to guarantee it?\u2019 But once the discussion began, mounting dread that it would be chosen and I would have to stand up and speak it. And be torn limb from limb… Wouldn\u2019t have done at all. Especially in my Prada mac. Two of the panel were sledgehammers greatly preoccupied with injustice to the trans-gendered; one of the sledgehammers as good as said all gays should be socialists. Poor Rufus Pitman, looking alarmed and kindly, the only voice of reason and indeed information; humour and irony razed all around.<\/p>\n

Lord Arrowby, in touch throughout by text with the highest corridors of power, muttered: \u2018What about crime against Poor Little Rich Gays: stealing their I Phones.\u2019 Afterwards in the street, he was skipping about and squealing with delight: \u2018That was Lorraine Chase in there. I met her. I met Lorraine Chase. She can come to my party.\u2019<\/p>\n

Do you remember Lorraine Chase? She was that model in the 70s who looked dead classy but when she opened her mouth turned out to be cockney.<\/p>\n

It really was her, too.<\/p>\n

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