My Prime Minister is a good man. He’s a Con-serrrrrrr-va-tiiiiiiiiive, inn’he? Like Churchill. Like Maggie, Go’rest’er’soul. And therefore, as the man on the street, whoever is the current Prime Minister, I willl love him. Or her. Long as issa Conservative.

Ahhhh, those heady days of Alf Garnet-like complete support for any head of our government just because they held that role. The Queen was deified and the PM seen as her spokesperson ‘on earth’. But no more. Possibly because when the art of ‘spin’ came along it redefined lying and cheating in a way that it was almost sanitised. Before that politicians generally told… The Truth!!! I know, it seems hard to believe, but that’s how it was. A group of ‘gentlemen’ (because there were very few ladies), on opposite sides but, just like in the cricket games of old, they deported themselves with dignity, with grace and with trust that each and all would ‘do the right thing’. According to the Marquis of Queensbury rules. Different sport, same idea.

Then along struts Boris. The end-point of a rather darker and more sinister political evolutionary line. And at the time I did warn you. I said to you ‘YOU CAN’T TRUST BORIS!!!!’ Mainly because he’s so terribly unpredictable but also because he’s basically a liar and a cheat. Though not necessarily in that order. As he in fact cheated first. But did you listen???

He tried to shut parliament down so it couldn’t vote down the ‘without-a-deal’ departure from the EU on October 31st. That’s cheating. But not necessarily illegal, depending on which side of Hadrian’s Wall you stand. Because a Scottish court, having initially judged the shut-down to be legal, on appeal has decided that it is illegal because Boris lied to the Queen to make her do it. The English courts decided that although such an act was pretty rotten, it was a POLITICAL rotten act and nothing really to do with the law. So now it goes to the Supreme Court for final judgment.

But either way, having lost his first 6 votes in parliament, sacking half his own MPs for dissent and if nothing else, saving Theresa May from being remembered as the biggest fuck-up ever to reside at Number 10, Boris now stands accused of lying to Her Majesty, the Queen of England, some other small countries of little merit, what’s left of the Commonwealth and 3 little towns in Australia’s Northern Territories who never got the news of their independence.

Is that worse than lying to your wife? Something, we must assume, Boris has done on numerous occasions. But for a Prime Minister, should it be deemed the case, to basically con the Queen into shutting parliament down, that’s not great.

However…

I would much rather have a megalomaniacal liar, cheat, philanderer and (at times) imbecile running the country that Jeremy Corbyn and his band of Trotskyists. Though not such a merry band as there is great Branxiety in their ranks and Brindecision about another Breferendum. And praise the lord for that.

Happy Friday

A xxxx