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Political parties viewed through a Lord of the Rings prism...
A) LibDems: hobbits, largely overlooked but with an important part to play.
B) Greens: elves, defending the natural spaces
C) Labour: men (some good, some evil, many arrogant)
D) Tories: orcs
#Ridge #marr #MarrShow
E) Brexit Party: Uruk-hai
F) Brexit: the One Ring
G) Jeremy Corbyn: Denethor
H) Jacob Rees-Mogg, Priti Patel, Michael Gove etc: ringwraiths
J) Boris Johnson: Gollum at his least Smeagol-like
K) Lady Hale: Galadriel
L) Dominic Cummings: Wormtongue
M) Putin and/or Trump: Sauron
N) Nigel Farage: Saruman
O) SNP: dwarves (doughty folk, but mostly concerned with their own affairs)
P) Dominic Raab: Shelob
Q) BBC: Mouth of Sauron
R) Revoke Article 50: the Eagles (could short circuit the whole trek, deliver the One Ring to Mt Doom, and see it unmade, all in a few wingbeats)
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