Of Crooks and Cranks

Take out the crooks, and only the cranks would be left. 

Crook Number One is already due to stand trial. Crooks Numbers Two and Three, in either order, will be Michael Gove, over his expenses, and Jeremy Hunt, over pretty much everything that he has ever done. First at Culture and then at Health, Hunt was such a complete crook that people genuinely stopped noticing. Does one notice the air? There are a couple more crooks besides those three, but in the end only the cranks need to be left. And then, let the freak show begin. 

Although why the Queen or anyone else ought to honour the result of it, I have no idea. John Major, Gordon Brown and Theresa May were chosen by the body of MPs that had an overall majority in the House of Commons. David Cameron had to wait five years as Leader before a General Election made him Prime Minister. Only a General Election could make Jeremy Corbyn Prime Minister.

So, either the House of Commons or the electorate, then. By contrast with either of those, the membership of a political party is of no constitutional significance whatever, and in itself it has no business choosing the Prime Minister. It has never done so before. Not once.

I almost hope that it does land us with Boris Johnson. He would not last very long, and it would be a fitting end to the Thatcher-Blair Era, which has delivered the exact opposite of everything that people at least chose to pretend that Thatcher and Blair ever promised. 

An Old Etonian Prime Minister? Why not? But a buffoonish thug and a thuggish buffoon whose only qualification to be Prime Minister was that he was an Old Etonian and a member of the Bullingdon Club? That would not have happened before 1979 and 1997, which are still the Year Zeros of most Conservative and all Labour MPs respectively.

Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.