Well it finally happened. The new man for the job arrived. All the fuss, all the waiting, all the expectation and now…

Tanguy Ndombele plays for Spurs. Our only signing in nearly 2 years. And he came on last Sunday when we played a friendly in Singapore against Juventus. They of the Christiano Ronaldo fame. And Ndombele’s first touch was a wonderful pass to Lucas Moura which made a goal. That drew the score at 2-2 to set the scene for Harry Kane (who else?) to hit an injury time winner from the half way line. OMG.

And they want me to get excited about Boris?? After that?? And yet…

And yet I am a bit excited about Boris. Even though I didn’t want him to be our new PM at all. Though he does make me laugh. Not necessarily the most sought-after trait in a Prime Minister, I grant you, but it always makes him easier to watch. His humour is so dead-pan, so ‘dry’ that lots of people just don’t get him. Even BBC’s political whiner-in-chief, Laura Kuensberg don’t get him. And I’m 100% sure that Boris’s most British of British humour is completely lost on Donald Trump. Who is hailing Boris as the new Caesar. Or, in fact, stated that ‘they’re calling him Britain Trump’. As if that would even be a compliment.

Which they’re not. That’s ‘fake news’. From the world’s fakest fucker. I’ve heard no-one calling him ‘Britain Trump’. If we had it would probably be ‘Britain’s Trump’ but Donald don’t do grammar. And assumes that most political pundits wouldn’t know an apostrophe from an oil well in Texas.

But Boris has done the hard bit. He’s won. Now its the plain sailing years ahead. He just has to unify his party, unify parliament, implement Brexit by October 31st (the absolute essential; fail in that and he’s gone forever), create an economy that can survive all of that and beat off Jeremy Corbyn in a general election. There’s ‘little stuff’ as well, like the Irish backstop, like parliament never going to vote for the ‘no-deal’ Brexit he’s almost insisting on, and doing all that without committing a personal cock-up (and in Boris’s case this phrase must be literal as well as figurative) like he did when he went to Iran to ‘plead’ for poor Nazanin. The sort of cock-up that is almost inevitable for someone who is so constantly ‘off the cuff’ and often tragically unrehearsed or ill-informed. Make ‘em laugh first, worry about the facts later.

The only thing in Boris’ favour is that he is relentlessly positive. Which, after the Theresa May years (felt like about 50 years) of woe and misery, comes as something of a tonic. We can only pray that there is substance behind that positivity. Because its Boris we’re talking about here.

Happy New PM Day

A xxxx