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Your ‘umble scribe likes to think he was properly brought up: polite, courteous, not swearing people, particularly women, and such like. As regards swearing, his sister has more than once revealed that when she and my late father were on a bus once, he admonished fellow passengers for swearing because women were present.<\/p>\n
As regards swearing, step forward over-promoted former fireplace salesman “Sir” Gavin Alexander Williamson CBE<\/abbr> MP<\/a>, the dishonourable member for South Staffordshire<\/a> who has been inexplicably elevated to cabinet rank (again!) as Minister of State without Portfolio<\/a>, who appears to have been taught and abide by completely different standards of social conduct to those of your correspondent.<\/p>\n News has emerged over the weekend<\/a> that Williamson sent ‘expletive-laden’ text messages to the then Conservative chief whip<\/a> Wendy Morton<\/a> all moaning about not being invited to attend the late queen’s funeral.<\/p>\n The actual words quoted by the press reveal that Williamson has a fine command of monosyllabic swear words having their roots in Old English (which some still call Anglo-Saxon. Ed.<\/em>), particularly ones beginning with f<\/em> and s<\/em>.<\/p>\n Not only did Williamson use foul language towards a woman, but this morning his cabinet colleague Oliver Dowden<\/a> (also inexplicably honoured with a CBE like Williamson. Ed.<\/em>)defended Williamson on Sky News\u2019s Sophy Ridge on Sunday<\/a> programme, claiming Williamson’s offensive text messages were sent ‘in the heat of the moment<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n I blame both of their sets of parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your ‘umble scribe likes to think he was properly brought up: polite, courteous, not swearing people, particularly women, and such like. As regards swearing, his sister has more than once revealed that when she and my late father were on a bus once, he admonished fellow passengers for swearing because women were present. As regards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,15],"tags":[36,16,22,33,20],"class_list":["post-12010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-politics","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12010"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12046,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010\/revisions\/12046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/11\/Oliver_Dowden_MP.jpg\")
According to the messages published by today’s Sunday Times, Williamson accused Morton of exploiting the Queen\u2019s death for political purposes, particularly as he was out of favour at the time with the English Empire’s shortest serving ever prime minister, one Elizabeth Mary Truss, now safely removed from high office and returned to the back benches.<\/p>\n