A ditch to die in, aye, BoJo?

 

I am fewmin’, I am incandescent with rage: now, with the report of the HoC Privileges Commission published, Johnson and his coterie are hell-bent on destroying their own Party. More on that below, firstly a quick look at the print editions’ front pages: “Newspaper headlines: ‘End of the road for Boris’ after Partygate report” (link). 

As expected after the HoC Committee published their report, it’s wall-to-wall Boris. The political pundits are having a field day and i expect more of the same for the weekend. Meanwhile we read in the DT (all emphases are mine):

“Boris Johnson’s allies have threatened to oust Conservative MPs who vote for the partygate report after the privileges committee recommended that he be blocked from receiving a parliamentary pass in the future.” (paywalled link)

This is about Monday’s vote in the HoC, on the ‘Partygate’ report. Words failed me when I read this next:

“Nadine Dorries, the former culture secretary and a long-standing supporter of the ex-prime minister, warned that “deselections may follow” for Tory MPs who vote through the report – a message echoed by other Johnson loyalists.” (paywalled link)

If we needed more proof that the Dorrieses of this world are treating the whole thing as a war on their own, self-applied privileges, there’s this as well:

“She is currently delaying formally resigning from Parliament in an effort to investigate why she missed out on a peerage on Mr Johnson’s resignation honours list last week. (paywalled link)

What the heck? Would she have kept quiet had she been given yon peerage? There’s more:

“David Campbell Bannerman, the chairman of the Conservative Democratic Organisation, said: “Any Tory MP, in my view, that backs this is anti-democratic. And they will face a vote of no confidence at the selection, because members will be that angry that they will hold them to account on this.” (paywalled link)

Suddenly we hear that MPs are dependent on their constituency party members! Really? Don’t said MPs usually ride roughshod over their constituency members’ views? Here are the names of the Johnson acolytes: 

“The seven Tory MPs who indicated publicly they would vote against the report on Mr Johnson were Simon Clarke, Ms Dorries, Brendan Clarke-Smith, Paul Bristow, James Duddridge, Mark Jenkinson and Jacob Rees-Mogg.” (paywalled link)

Where were these wonderful MPs, fighting ‘for democracy’, when they threw out Andrew Bridgen for daring to question the efficiency of the covid vaccine? Bloody hypocrites! Dear Jacob at least has ‘done a Farage’ and gone on to telly, he doesn’t need to fear losing his seat …

They are like cultists who follow their leader BJ because they have swallowed his ‘exceptionalism’. They seem to believe his ‘excuse’, that ‘Partygate’ only happened because he didn’t know ‘Teh Rulz’ – rules which he created –  and that nobody told him he had to observe them. In his and clearly in their minds, ‘rules’ are for little people, they don’t apply to BJ or to them. ‘Democracy’ is just a beautiful label behind which to hide the greed for access to troughs and ‘honours’.

What really made my blood boil is the sudden prominence the DT has given to staunch Brexiteers. I was stunned to see Nigel Farage last weekend, pontificating that “There is an establishment plot to reverse Brexit” (paywalled link).

Well I nevah: has he finally woken up to this fact, a fact we’ve pointed out for years? Ah – no, this is about his proposal to ‘fight for Brexit with Johnson’ if BJ were trying to create his own party. Someone better tell him that one cannot swim twice in the same river – Johnson with his much-vaunted classical education ought to know that. 

Moreover, today there’s a piece by Alan Sked – yes, he’s still a ‘go-to’ person for the DT, headlined “First they came for Boris – now they come for Brexit” (paywalled link). Oh – now he noticed! Haven’t we been screaming about this for years? What have the Skeds and Farages of the Brexit world done during that time? Oh – they kept slinging mud at each other, so that’s ok then.

And finally, we have Lord Frost. Under the title “The Remain establishment has finally got its way – Boris and Truss recognised that Brexit must mean change. Destroying them does not alter that fact” (paywalled link) he writes that he finds the ‘Partygate Report’ vindictive and childish. After giving us an interesting review of the Tories’ Brexit policies, he writes:

“Much of our establishment had a nervous breakdown after the Brexit referendum. Many tried to reverse the result in 2018-19, trashing the constitution as they did so. Only Boris could cut through the mess. Even so, much of the parliamentary party only got behind him because, after the European elections in 2019, they feared extinction. I vividly remember the disdain and suspicion with which we were all regarded when Boris came into office in 2019, not just by the Civil Service but by all too many of our own parliamentarians.” (paywalled link)

Spot on, Frosty – but this doesn’t excuse in any way Johnson’s attitudes, leading to Partygate and to this HoC Privileges Committee Report. Is it ok to lie ‘because: Brexit!’? Did the 2019 vote give a mandate to Johnson to lie about Partygate, never mind embroiling us in that Ukraine war?

Above all – where and when did the Brexiteers in the Tory Party reach out to us, the voters, who expected them to fulfil their election promise to get Brexit done? Didn’t they in fact keep treating us with disdain, unworthy to be heard? And now those members are good enough to help them to support BJ?

I am incandescent with fury because now, while they’re up to their necks in the mire they created, these Tory ‘Brexiteers’ are trying to ‘cry Brexit’, in order to keep Johnson’s political career alive! Tory Party members and we, the electorate, are now exhorted to forget his lies and dishonesty, to forget the petticoat regime of Carrie’s Court, draping the tattered ‘Brexit flag’ over themselves as if this must cover all their political sins. 

Equally disgusting is the excuse of ‘covid’, as if this alone exonerates them from letting Brexit slip. I’m just waiting for Johnnson’s and his acolytes’ plea to forgive him because he still wants to ‘deliver Brexit’. He ought to have thought of that rather than involve us to the literal hilt in yon war in the Ukraine.

That’s all I have for today. Die in that ditch, Johnson – I for one won’t forgive. Have a good day.



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