The Tory party, yet again, in its full pomp, its full majesty. At its most staggeringly, most marvellously ridiculous.
They have been such a stunning joke for such a very long time now that no one is laughing anymore. Not that they ever were laughing, as such, but the level of sustained absurdity is such that it has begun to feel entirely normal.
For quite a while now, I have watched the Tory party in action and found it very hard not to be reminded of the time a close friend of mine was summoned to collect his three-year-old child from nursery, who had been excluded from the afternoon’s crafting activities after pulling his pants down and colouring himself blue in a place where the staff are not legally permitted to clean it off.
That sort of thing is hilarious, just the once. And it only happened once. Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng, Suella Braverman, Rishi Sunak, Dominic Cummings, Gavin Williamson, the absurdist list rolls on and on, and endlessly on to the point where its idiocy has become tedious. It is not a government, it is a rolling experiential performance art piece, of which the latest character to take centre stage is Jeremy Hunt.
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