Jolyon Maugham lets slip

Day 8 of the #FoxKiller saga, and Jolyon still has yet to tweet.....

CircleofWillis Not too M&B at all.

Haha just realised how well my mini story fits in with the thread title.

Claire looks very small and slightly built, it must be an extremely roomy kimono !
Or a tiny wrap barely covering a large man. Which is probably the point we are all supposed to be picturing the silk swishing over his hairy manly thighs almost revealing his most secret treasures as he battles with the raw embodiment of nature red in tooth and claw to protect his family - in a garden in south London...
(Too Mills and Boon?)

Oh dear. Awkward.

Claire looks very small and slightly built, it must be an extremely roomy kimono !

I'm not convinced that Jolyon thinks or cares much beyond what Jolyon wants.

Everyone else seems to be just a moving breathing prop in the Amazing Story of His Life.

Could he really not have foreseen that this could make her job difficult, if not untenable?

He seems to be remarkably poor at evaluating the potential consequences of his actions (or he just doesn't give a shot).

Being a local councillor is a ruddy hard job - it's not uncommon for people to serve one term or less. It's also difficult to find competent and willing candidates.

It's appalling (if true) that the Labour party put Claire under pressure due to her husband's actions. She's not his keeper, and she's also not his little wifey who might be influenced by him.

But it's also inappropriate that Jo wrote a pompous ("I have practised as a barrister for 15 years") and scathing letter to the local paper about a Southwark Council court case, when his wife was on the housing scrutiny committee examining the outcome of that case. He really put the boot into named Council officials she had to work with and oversee.
Could he really not have foreseen that this could make her job difficult, if not untenable?

She knows that a kimono on an angry man does not a woman make, so that’s a start.

First time I've seen a picture of Claire She looks really sensible. I wonder if she is GC?

It's not the first time he's made her life difficult, apparently:

www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/confusion-surrounds-sudden-resignation-of-labour-councillor/

If my DH had done what Jolyon did, and posted about it on Twitter, I'd be packing his bags for him.

Or at the very least, "mention my kimono on Twitter one more time, and you're out, buster."

I suspect his long-suffering wife has locked his smartphone in the cupboard. I hope she's ordered a new kimono for herself too.

Hopefully circling the wagons, preparing a defence against prosecution by the RSPCA, averting divorce from the kimono owner by spending a fortune on replacement kimonos whilst finally installing decent fox proof fencing. With any luck that may have involved accidentally hammering his thumb a few times too.

One must be grateful for small mercies. Hopefully he is on holiday in some far flung place where twitter is unknown: however, the thought that he is parading around at home in a blooded kimono enjoying his notoriety is probably nearer the truth.

Still no tweeting. This is an unprecedented lack of tweeting from Jolyon.

I think he saw it as a cosy domestic anecdote. How wrong he was.

A reasonable person would just get better fencing,

And a nice navy flannel dressing gown!

If he'd gone tearing out of the house in his wife's kimono in pursuit of a burglar people would be impressed. As it is, he's coming across as a raging perv with violent tendencies.

What does he think he's communicating with the wife's kimono stuff? Is he going for loveable English eccentric? Because if so, most Brits are rather fond of animals and announcing that you've bludgeoned one to death doesn't come across as cute and quirky no matter what you're wearing.

Also I can't imagine that many wives would be happy to have a garment borrowed by their husband and handed back to them covered in blood.

Very quiet on twitter.

He's gone to ground, holed up in his den.

Nothing useful to add, but how glorious that he was rocking a skimpy kimono and not dad PJs.

I’m sure we all will follow this case with interest.

Happy New Year, Jolyon

The earlier tweet definitely makes it sound like both the wife's kimono and the urge to bludgeon helpless wildlife have been part of his fantasy life for some time.

A reasonable person would just get better fencing, That he instead purchased a weapon, and an inefficient one that requires a real commitment to violence to wield, is alarming.