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Related: About this forumLiteral cat fight breaks out between Downing Street and British Foreign Office
Larry the Cat, 10 Downing Streets tabby, sits in the street as politicians attend a cabinet meeting in London. Larry had been treated... (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)
LONDON Britains new leader had been in office barely a week when a skirmish broke out between 10 Downing Street and the Foreign Office.
No, Prime Minister Theresa Mays patience with her boisterous foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, did not run out. Instead, a fight erupted between Larry the Cat, 10 Downing Streets tabby, and Palmerston, the Foreign Offices feline.
Larry, who holds the jocular title of chief mouser to the Cabinet Office, after being tasked in 2011 with alleviating a mouse problem at the prime ministers residence, was recently spotted with a limp. Palmerston, however, is a newcomer, having arrived in April.
According to accounts in the British news media, the turf war began when Larry tried to infiltrate the grounds of the Foreign Office, on Whitehall, from his nearby Downing Street residence, prompting a jealous Palmerston to claw at him. Eventually, Larry emerged triumphant, and he limped home.
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Literal cat fight breaks out between Downing Street and British Foreign Office (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jul 2016
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LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)1. What a year. Even the cats are engaged in within-party infighting!
TexasTowelie
(112,139 posts)2. It's a cat-astrophe!
malthaussen
(17,193 posts)3. Now, if the Foreign Office's mascot were only a hen...
... it would have been chicken-catch-a-Tory.
-- Mal
TexasTowelie
(112,139 posts)4. Rim shot!
shenmue
(38,506 posts)6. You win several Internets
shenmue
(38,506 posts)5. Oh noes!