Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York (William Shakespeare: Duke of Gloucester in Richard III)
The Witch of Worcester has recently been commissioned to write a play along the lines of the “Horrible Histories”: http://horrible-histories.co.uk The “sun of York” in question is Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. Provisionally entitled “The Housebuilders”, the plot revolves around a major outbreak of urban sprawl between Gloucester and Worcester. Unable to travel to work because of traffic congestion, the spooks of GCHQ – who are scattered around the M5 motorway corridor – go on strike. In the midst of the ensuing chaos, Nigel Farage declares a Kentish breakaway state independent of the European Union and asks for assistance from Vladimir Putin to secure its borders. At this point, Eric Pickles stages a coup d’etat, later imprisoning former prime minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg in the Tower of London. The long-awaited arrival of full-on Soviet style central planning is then hailed by “The Housebuilders”, a conspiracy of freemasons bent on concreting over Middle England. As the Horrible Histories website states: “Here you’ll find nasty nuggets and foul facts aplenty…”
The Witch of Worcester 