Who speaks for ‘us’? I don’t mean ‘me and you’ or even ‘my family’, but who speaks for ‘us’, the entire nation of British people, and some Scots? Not sure about the Northern Irish but feel duty-bound to include them just this time.

Because the government is elected by us, though never all of ‘us’, that’s democracy. And we effectively hire and pay it to represent us in all things large and confusing and more important than which channel to watch.

So when Boris Johnson mouths off against Saudi Arabia, whose ideas is he espousing?

Theresa May decided, unilaterally, that his words were NOT representative of government views. No, they were big-mouthed Boris’s own personal views. But Boris (for better or for worse) IS the official Government dude, appointed by Theresa herself, for issues overseas. How can his views not be understood to be representative? She put over his blond head a large cloak that has written upon it: “I may look like an overweight party clown but I AM NOW Britain’s foreign mouthpiece”. She can’t just take it off him for odd phrases and conversations that occur in the public domain.

Boris said that Saudi Arabia were ‘puppeteers’ in the whole middle east. Using the many, many battles currently being engaged there as a ‘proxy war’ against Iran. Which many (virtually everyone, in fact) holds to be a completely true and factual statement. Wherever Sunni meets Shia with guns, you can simply assume those guns, and most of the ideas, come from Saudi and Iran.

‘But the Saudis are our friends and allies’, says Theresa May. Wrong. They are HER friends and allies. We (the entire nation) fucking hate the Saudis more than we hate any other nation on Earth, other than in times of sport. They are a vile and evil nation, the total antithesis of any liberal democracy. Never mind ‘equality’, they murder women for fun there, stone gays to death; they invented Wahabism, that vile extrapolation of Islam that created Al Quaeda, ISIS and a host of other lovelies. They are currently attacking Yemen with full (and massive) military might. Allegedly to ‘defend themselves against the Houthis’ (unsurprisingly a bunch of Shias), by apparently fire-bombing civilian populations. With weapons supplied by Britain, their mates.

If the Saudis didn’t spend zillions of pounds every year with us to supply arms our troops would probably be in Riyadh today to stop the evil.

But we have a deal. They spend shit-loads of black gold over here, we turn a blind eye to the vast array of global atrocities they perpetrate. And allow their super-rich Saudi-brat-pack to burn rubber around Harrods every summer in solid gold McLarens and diamond-encrusted, 6-wheeled Bentleys.

So yes, Theresa May, you can pretty much just fuck off. Boris, for once, is actually stating the thoughts of the British public. As we pay him to do.

We may face bankruptcy in Britain, but not of the moral variety.

Happy, much holier than thou, Friday

A xxxx

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