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THICKO SUCH A B'STARD

WHENEVER I see Gavin “Thicko” Williamson, I can’t help thinking of Rik Mayall’s classic Tory hate figure Alan B’Stard, who was the very essence of everything Theresa May was talking about in her “nasty party” speech of 2002.

It’s rather ironic then that he was one of the primary henchmen in her successful play for PM in the aftermath of David Cameron’s demise. That Williamson had to go after a foul-mouthed attack on his own Chief Whip and the resurfacing of instructions to “slit your throat” to an MoD official seems to me less controversial than how the hell he managed to become a Knight for “political service”.

In his brief parliamentary career, Sir Gav has been rewarded with the Tory Chief Whip job by Mrs May, been fired as Defence Secretary for leaking information from the National Security Council and then fired again as Education Secretary for the cock-up that was the Covid era exams fiasco.