Chameleon ex-minister now bends reality live on air as Useful Idiot for the X billionaire
The Guardian|January 08, 2025
You can tell that Elon Musk must have overstepped the mark when even Kemi Badenoch has taken a break from tweeting her support for the ketamine-riddled billionaire.
John Crace

The Tory leader's reality is largely shaped by what she reads on social media, so she's decided she'd better keep quiet for a while. Quite the concession for a politician who never passes on the chance to make a bad situation worse.

But you can always rely on Robert Jenrick to step in. It's hard to know who the real Honest Bob really is. Is it the fresh-faced David Cameron wannabe who was first elected in 2014? Is it the minister with no moral compass who was happy to expedite a planning permission for an erstwhile pornographer and Tory donor? Or is it the politician of the far right who has never met an immigrant he didn't want to deport?

Along the way, Jenrick has also become a Useful Idiot to people like Musk. While Musk works his way through his stash, Honest Bob is on hand to pick up the pieces of his increasingly deranged tweets.

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