Raisa

So let’s get this straight. David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has not been riding on this horse, or so his speaker affirmed yesterday. But today, at the EURO summit about the End of the World, he gives another press conference to rectify his overworked speaker and confirm that he, in fact, did ride said horse.

David Cameron, British Prime Minister

Raisa, the horse

Yes, really?

Well he got the horse from Charlie Brooks. And Charlie is a friend since 30 years. Over 30 years. And he’s a good friend. And he’s a neighbor in the constituency; they live a few miles apart. Aahpaaht. But he hasn’t been riding the horse since the elections of 2010 (that brought him to power; we love posh accents, because we can actually understand them). Before the elections, however, yes he did go riding with him, Charlie, his friend. Charlie has a number of different horses (who hasn’t), and one of them was this former police horse Raisa, which he did ride, and we are all very sorry to hear that Raisa is no longer with us, and he doesn’t think he’ll be getting back into the saddle anytime soon. Snick.

Rebekah Brooks (note the striking resemblance with the famous Medea painting (must be intended))

Raisa Gorbatchev

So what?

Did Cameron mount a presser to apologize to the former Soviet President Gorbachev for riding on a horse with no name the name of Gorbachev wife Raisa, who is no longer with us either, since she tragically died in 1999? No. What is it then? Well, Charlie, you know, Charlie Brooks, he’s the husband of Rebekah Brooks, the perennial editor of The Sun, the Murdoch tabloid. And Rebekah had, of course, no idea that some of her Sun news-room men were hacking mobile phone voicemails left and right to score the next scoop, no, she didn’t,  she is --- at least was completely innocent, until she unexpectedly stepped down to spend more time with her family, and perhaps with Raisa, the horse. Mind you, Rebekah (the name alone) had nothing to do with rumors that she and her newspaper were in cahoots with the Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard), and paid police officers for underhand information, although, mind you, paying for information has always been done, everybody does it, until Rupert Murdoch admitted three days ago that there had been a “culture of illegal payments” at The Sun, of which he knew nothing of course, and he’s so shocked to learn about all the filth that has been going on. And heads will roll (except his own, of course).



Yes, and? Raisa was on loan from the Metropolitan Police. It was a police horse. On loan. The Metropolitan Police had loaned Raisa to the Brooks (Charlie & Rebekah).

Anyhow, everything should be forgiven now, since Cameron won’t get back into the saddle any time soon.

Why is nobody loaning a horse to us?