Among the many fears that stalk those who inhabit places such as The Settlers Club, or Soggy Bottom, the fear of Highjack has rarely been mentioned.  We at Passive Complicity N.L., or at least I, Cecil Poole, had never given it a thought.

Yet the unthinkable has happened.

Last week the blog, the august and respectable pcbycp was highjacked.  Ambushed and highjacked by none other than Quentin Cockburn.

We were all set, nay, had promised our loyal readership that we would have a week talking on the strong relationship between Cars, the Auto Industry and Democracy.  True to form we plaigerised a cartoon by Thelwell.  This cartoon actually.
  (It has to be said that the plaigerised version is better) You’ll remember that this plaigarism was excused as the car in our cartoon was a Triumph (what an opportune name for a British car!) 2000, and the background was Australian scrub.

We followed this with a learned tome on Democracy from our resident intellectual, Tarquin O’Flaherty (Dip.Ed., Lumberton, NC, 1969 (Failed)).  Tarquin completed a factorial analysis of the sartorial and hirsute in the outcome of the twentieth century on Democracy.

So far so good.

Now to look at the influence of autos and the auto industry!

Not so, said the influential Quentin Cockburn.   From the sanctity of his leather arm chair in his Club he set forth to regale readers (I hesitate to say alienate) with his thoughts on Heritage, Cellists, some bloke called Des Tuddenham, John Pilger, Maggie Thatcher (for whom he has great regard, as he does for Real Estate Agents) and the importance of the Austrian School of economics for the future.

Not a thing about cars.

So this week we set about redressing the balance.

Starting tomorrow with a piece from Quantum Dumpster.

Happy Motoring.

Cecil Poole, CP (Complete Prat) and Publisher

As we have no image of Cecil Poole here is one of a complete prat