Why Larry the cat of 10 Downing Street wishes Starmer hadn’t won the election

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Why Larry the cat of 10 Downing Street wishes Starmer hadn’t won the election
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This all seems a gigantic first-world problem for Larry, who could be on the mean streets of Ohio getting eaten by Trump’s illegal immigrants.

Every now and again, you encounter a sight so magnificently idiotic that it flies into your head, ricochets off the side of your brain and is reflexively pinballed straight back out into the universe, leaving you wondering whether you hallucinated the whole thing.

And so it was that I found myself queuing at one of those self-service kiosks in McDonalds recently, watching, dumbfounded, as the human cat in front of me scoured the board for a McWhiskas before dejectedly slumming it with a fillet-o-fish. Initially, I wasn’t sure why she’d ventured out for takeaway wearing pointy ears, a fluffy tail, whiskers and strategically placed patches on her feline parts, but as it turned out, she identified as a furry.

It was a generous assessment, given the sheer number of times Larry has been photographed terrorising other animals, including his fellow cats, a pigeon and, on one notable occasion, a fox much larger than himself. As political animals go, he sounds all right so far, but “figure of stability”? OK, let’s go with that.

It’s impossible to say what’s driving Larry’s animus, but presumably the revolving door of Downing Street tenants hasn’t helped matters. Like all his mouser predecessors , Larry technically belongs to the residence’s staff, not the prime minister. That means whoever wins the top job temporarily inherits the cat.

Still, this all seems a gigantic first-world problem for Larry, who could have things way worse and be on the mean streets of Ohio getting eaten by Trump’s illegal immigrants. The world’s gone mad. Thank heavens I’m a cat-less child lady.

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