Tweaked ever so slightly, Boris Johnson is going to deliver that same spiel on every religious festival while he remains Prime Minister. He has long been on record as despising Christianity, as many a mediocre Classicist does, although based on recent form he is barely even that.
Johnson has no intention of helping the massacred Christians of Narendra Modi's India, or anyone who might convert to Christianity in Saudi Arabia. He is preparing to make it an imprisonable offence to mention the existence of the ancient indigenous Christians of the Holy Land.
No, where he might offer some glimmer of hope is in the fact that, barely a month from now, Brexit will have happened, leaving him with nearly five years in which to try and persuade seats such as this one to vote for his party again.
Broadly speaking, that will mean implementing the domestic policy programme of Jeremy Corbyn even while screaming at Rebecca Long-Bailey or whoever about Venezuela or what have you (which is a very good reason why Corbyn ought to stay on as Leader of the Labour Party), and paying for it by the application of Modern Monetary Theory even while pretending never to have heard of MMT.
All of this will of course wreak havoc in and around the parliamentary contingents of both parties. But I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Never elected above parish council level, denied that last time, it makes you wonder if we should have elections at all. Hilary Armstrong and Laura Pidcock couldn't have read this, never mind written it.
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