The Tory Lemmings

 

Our Prime Minister is accomplished at one or two things. Running away from a difficult situation – he is good at it. For now, Ukraine will do. Let’s try to look statesman-like. (Difficult when you have no practice at it, looking as you do, like Worzel Gummidge.).  And the deputy is slow-witted. Poor Raab. How do you defend a charlatan? Raab brings out the compassionate teacher in me, faced with the fourteen-year-old slow-wit, who is trying hard to stand up to authority, but merely looks stupid.

           Thing is, we have focussed on our PM. He didn’t get to this exalted position by his superior skills. There is a whole party of lemmings who chose him, and then kept him there. They are still shoring him up. After talking to his M Ps yesterday, apparently his support has grown ‘overwhelmingly.’ I quote Raab. So, there is a whole covey of Tories who are as, or more, complicit than him. Are they just safe-guarding their own interests? Scared to let go, because they will have to go home and fade away. Look at Rees Bloody Mogg, for instance. What a caricature he is! Jeeves could not have invented one better.

           A second thing Johnson has long practice at is lying – off the cuff, casually, even when the truth would have been simpler. He must have started in Primary School, so he is now a veteran. However, what was the point of that barb thrown at Starmer? You can get away with that in the Chamber, but outside, it’s self-destructive. Slander? Libel?

           At the end of the day, there must be many Tory M Ps who are ashamed of their caricature of a P M. We have to hope that they get together and show Johnson the door. As a committed Labour person, (left-of-left, Corbynite, Kerala Communist without the violence, that’s who I am.) I am watching the Tory debacle with glee.

           And selfishly, I think – draw it out, draw it out; let the Country understand how rotten the core of the Tory Party is. It can crumble at a touch.