A prime minister who has asserted himself against powers as varied and formidable as Slobodan Milosevic, Sierra Leone's West Side Boys and Gordon Brown, his brooding and imperious chancellor, could not be seen to be pushed about by a bunch of tea-brewing lorry drivers and farmers in Barbour jackets.Nor, in truth, is the risk that Mr Blair is running such a great one.
But Maqadul Shah also means "The House of Tea" and that's suggestive of, well, a bunch of tea-drinking Mogadishonians.
A bunch of chai tea sipping elitists, with zero body fat, living in hip lofts while working at Nike, yes? No. Well, they do like running, and tea.
It's just a bunch of rednecks tea-bagging mother nature for 500 miles.
It's an instant arrangement, like two bunches of bodega tea roses in a pretty juice glass or a silver-plate julep cup on your night table".
He packs provisions in his backpack: a box of Honey Bunches of Oats, tea biscuits, Moroccan bubble gum, three Naproxen pills for back pain, and a bag of Clancy's corn chips.
When Johnson does his fuddy-duddy oh-sorry-I-seem-to-have-got-lost-on-my-way-to-lunch-at-the-vicar's act, or delivers a bunch of journalists some tea, he is conjuring this world up from the depths of our national libido.
Desperate for a job, he accepts a position as a labourer on a construction site and is introduced to hard yakka work and the Aussie accoutrements that come with it: cups of tea, a bunch of sheila-admiring red-blooded colleagues and, of course, a lot of beer.
"Just a bunch of people having coffee, tea and breakfast".
