It
did not come as a surprise to me that Michael Gove may be as much as
70% minced horse.
I
don't see many horses now. There used to be a stables near my house;
but it closed to make way for cars.
However,
I see them when I walk, and try to have conversations; and quite a
few years ago now I spent around a month on the Lizard peninsula and,
every morning, walked past a field in which there stood a horse and
its foal.
They
had food supplements brought to them in buckets. It was their habit,
having finished that food to get the buckets on to their heads and stand
there, sometimes shaking their heads, mostly not.
Alerted
by this, I have looked out for similar behaviour elsewhere, and it does seem
quite a widespread practice, as if horses tend to like to try to get
into the bucket just to make sure it really is empty.
They
are not that bright.
And
when I look at Gove or hear him, I think of those horses with buckets
on their heads.
Horses
of course are straightforward unmendacious creatures.
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