{"id":27,"date":"2008-08-06T11:49:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T11:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitziszereto.wordpress.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2012-04-02T03:19:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T02:19:49","slug":"the-office-of-prime-minister-should-i-accept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/the-office-of-prime-minister-should-i-accept\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office of Prime Minister – Should I Accept?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s often been suggested to me\u00a0that I should seek out the office of British\u00a0Prime Minister. Okay, so\u00a0maybe\u00a0it hasn’t been suggested – or not that much anyway.\u00a0Granted, I don’t have the dark\u00a0jowly Scottish charm of Gordon Brown<\/a> (or thankfully the stomach), but\u00a0what the hey?\u00a0 I’ve been in England\u00a0long enough\u00a0– I’m really more English than American, so why not become Prime Minister? I can’t drink\u00a0tea without milk, my sense of humour is warped (Papa Lazarou<\/a> is my idol, Dave), and I’ll take\u00a0a pint of beer\u00a0over a glass of wine at the pub any day. Now I ask you: is that English or wot? The only thing that needs sorting is an appropriate political party; I don’t fit into either Labour or the Tories, and as for the Green Party\u00a0or the Lib Dems, nah. Dull, the whole lot of them! So here is what I propose: The Erotic Party.\u00a0You’ve got to admit, it has cache. It just rolls off the tongue (ahem), doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

The thing is, do I really want to live at Number 10 with folk coming and going at all times of the day and night?\u00a0What if Maggie\u00a0Thatcher popped round for a cuppa? Bet she’ll use up all my demerara sugar, like the workmen always do whenever they come by to do repairs.\u00a0I’ve yet to meet an English\u00a0repairman who doesn’t take 3 sugars in his tea. And then there’s the Queen. Oh, I’ve no quarrel with her, she’s a\u00a0fabulous\u00a0old bird,\u00a0but that husband of hers is a real\u00a0lech. I don’t fancy fending off his roaming hands at a\u00a0cocktail party.\u00a0And I know already that it’ll\u00a0be a major hassle to get\u00a0all these\u00a0visitors to remove their shoes before they\u00a0come indoors; I’ll have to appoint someone specifically for this\u00a0task – the Shoe Removal Whip or\u00a0some such. Whip? Hmm… considering that\u00a0I’ll be the\u00a0leader of The Erotic Party,\u00a0that might lead to some unwanted\u00a0speculation.\u00a0As for Number 10 itself as a place of residence, I’ve heard it’s cramped, and\u00a0I suspect there might be rising damp. Are those windows\u00a0double glazed? Doesn’t look like it to me.\u00a0If you’ve been through an English winter (and spring, and summer, and autumn), you’ll know all about the importance of good double glazing and proper insulation.<\/p>\n

I suppose I’ll have to give this a bit more thought before I decide. Do I\u00a0give up\u00a0the exciting jetsetting life of writer, editor (and occasional teacher)\u00a0of erotic literature<\/a> just for\u00a0some silly little job of running an entire\u00a0country?<\/p>\n

I ask you, what would you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s often been suggested to me\u00a0that I should seek out the office of British\u00a0Prime Minister. Okay, so\u00a0maybe\u00a0it hasn’t been suggested – or not that much anyway.\u00a0Granted, I don’t have the dark\u00a0jowly Scottish charm of Gordon Brown (or thankfully the stomach), but\u00a0what the hey?\u00a0 I’ve been in England\u00a0long enough\u00a0– I’m really more English than American, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1782,1784],"tags":[20,33,834,151,1692,154,158,161,1725,1344,168,197,1734,198,1729,1731,1732,280,1733,292,579,308,320,1730,336,348,756,772,833],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artsandentertainment-2","category-randomandcrazy-2","tag-american-expats","tag-authors","tag-bloggers","tag-england","tag-erotic-books","tag-erotic-literature","tag-erotic-writer","tag-erotica","tag-eroticbooks","tag-eroticliterature","tag-expat","tag-gordon-brown","tag-gordonbrown","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-league-of-gentlemen","tag-leagueofgentlemen","tag-maggie-thatcher","tag-maggiethatcher","tag-mitzi-szereto","tag-mitzi-tv","tag-number-10","tag-papa-lazarou","tag-papalazarou","tag-prime-minister","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-queenelizabeth","tag-travel-and-places","tag-vloggers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}