Will he stop the cavalry?
The Three Star General has ridden into town, not quite on a white horse nor in a white hat, but in suitably heroic pose, declaring that he’s the man to put paid to the Senator’s audacious grab for power.
The horseback chase marked a new twist in Perthville’s notoriously Byzantine powerplays, as the Senator has taken advantage of the power vacuum left by the President’s paralysis since a back spasm and mysterious flirtation with a freelance Osteopath, and the status of the Opposition Leader as being, effectively, dead.
The Three Star General is believed to have rehearsed a brilliant tactical manoevre that could well prove a game-changer: destroying the Senator’s charismatic appeal to the Perthville citizenry, by dunking him in Lake Perthville, thereby rendering him comically ridiculous.
Watch this space.
It would seem the Senator is able to laugh at himself and decides to ham it up for the citizens of Perthville as I saw him frolicky with his dark horse in the ocean very like a swashbuckling pirate not a victim of the General. Rumour has it that because the Senator did not fight back the General became confused and unsure of himself and has was last seen wondering aimlessly . Can the Perthville Times confirm this rumour?