Thursday 5 October 2017

Once More Unto The Breach?

An almost horrific breach in security? Or proof that this "security" craze is nonsense, anyway? The latter, I strongly contend. That point is unaffected by occasional terrorist attacks or what have you. There will always be some.

Still, people are calling on dear old Patrick McLoughlin to resign. He has had a good run, far better than many another old UDM hand has managed. If he goes, then the last place where the spirit of the UDM will live on will be the Deputy Leadership of Durham County Council.

Time was when many Labour frontbenchers were strong enough to resign, and then when Jeremy Corbyn, in turn, was strong enough to sack several more. Today, however, we have a Foreign Secretary who is too weak to resign, and a Prime Minister who is too weak to sack him.

Remember, though, that it is only a few short months since our betters, who have today turned on Theresa May in the terms that they used to reserve for Gordon Brown, and before that for John Major, were telling us that she was the most gifted politician since sometime in the nineteenth century, and possibly ever. They are now saying the same thing about Boris Johnson.

In reality, Johnson would lose the Conservative Party one third of its vote, mostly in places that it did not hold, but therefore largely in places that it needed to win. Some of those people would vote Lib Dem, as is customary when one wishes to vote against one of the major parties without having to vote for the other one. But most of them would simply stay at home.

All of this is academic. A new Prime Minister in this Parliament would have to be acceptable to the DUP. To the DUP, it is therefore time to pose the Yes-No question, "Would you permit a Prime Minister whose mistress had had an abortion?"

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