Should Larry the Cat resign?

Larry the Downing Street Cat

The ConDem Coalition is under pressure as its slash and burn tactics by the Cabinet of All the Millionaires drags the economy deeper into recession. The May 2010 General Election resulted in the LibCon Coalition of the Conservative Party who didn’t win the election and the Liberal Democrats who most definitely lost the election and whose promise of changing the “Face of British Politics” turned out to be a busted flush. Since then the public has been treated to a drip, drip, drip of spending cuts and tax raises based on slash and burn policies which were never put to the electorate. It is now clear that under the guise of “fiscal responsibility” what is happening is an ideologically driven attack on State services and the whole concept of “Society.” For David Cameron’s Big Society read Bogus Society.



As you would expect the pressure has already lead to high level political resignations and the papers are speculating on what is to come with both Theresa May and her nemesis Ken Clarke being frequent names in the media frame. However far more seriously there is a clear and vicious smear campaign against the one name which still commands cross-party support and the public vote, Larry the Downing Street Cat who was drafted in to get the rats out of British Politics.

Today, Downing Street has rebuffed calls for Larry to resign as No 10's cat after reports a mouse appeared at a recent prime ministerial dinner. The PM was with other ministers, including Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, when the offending creature appeared, the Daily Mail said. No 10 brought in Larry, in February, to combat its rodent problem. Asked whether Larry should resign, the PM's spokesman said: "Larry brings a lot of pleasure to a lot of people."

Four-year-old Larry came to Downing Street from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and was said to have "a high chase-drive and hunting instinct", developed during his time on the streets. A spokesman said he had also shown "a very strong predatory drive" and enjoyed playing with toy mice. Larry's services were called upon after a large rat was seen scuttling past the door of No 10 during live television broadcasts.



In June, the prime minister told the BBC he was "a good mouser" and had caught three mice since his arrival. Spotted during a live broadcast from Downing Street during the BBC's News at Ten, Larry patiently waited on the steps before being let in through the famous door. The PM said he had taken a photograph on his mobile phone of a mouse in his kitchen, but at the time Larry had yet to have been allowed in that room.

He said the cat was "doing well" in his new home and although he was "not very keen on men", he had made an exception in May when he was happy to be stroked by US President Barack Obama. Larry is not taxpayer-funded - and until a recent fundraising event, his meals were paid for by the prime minister's staff out of their own pockets. A spokesman for the Royal Parks confirmed in September that Maisie, a cat who lives at the nearby St James' Park keeper's cottage, had struck up a close friendship with Larry.

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This is the political story which has it all, backbiting, intrigue, leaked smears, back alley briefings, cat porn and inaccurate fork throwing. As for the future of Larry the Downing Street Cat? Well there are no grounds for optimism, David Cameron has just given him his “fullest 100% support” and described his position as unassailable. It seems for Larry the Cat the writing is on the skirting board, he is being set up as a scapecat?