The most repulsive sight during Boris Johnson ’s latest walk of shame had to be Michael Fabricant’s head.
And I’m not talking about the sick-coloured thatch of dead rodents that sits atop it. No, it was seeing the Tory MP wheeled on to the BBC to defend the first British Prime Minister ever to be fined for breaking the law while in office, and saying he couldn’t see what all the fuss was about.
Or rather, he claimed Johnson had only done what every teacher and nurse had done when their shift ended during lockdown by hitting the bottle in the staff room.
Which is definitely true as anyone who knows a nurse who worked non-stop during Covid can tell you. Those NHS hospitals were Party Central.
Coming a close second in the repulsive sight awards was Edwina Currie, who took time off from lecturing the poor about being able to feed a family of six for a week on an economy bag of pasta, to tell ITV she “didn’t care” if Johnson had broken the law so long as he carried on doing the things that would keep her party in power.
Cue his hastily arranged announcement that asylum seekers turning up on our shores will be put on the first plane to Rwanda.
So as the entire Tory machine kept schtum about their leader’s shame, or MPs like Adam Holloway hit out at the police for daring to shower fines like confetti on Downing Street, the trapped lying rat was given yet another escape route.
And as his many right-wing media groupies – who chummily refer to him as Boris and are mostly fellow public schoolboys who would slaughter a Labour leader for willingly urinating on the nation’s Covid dead – screamed: “For God’s sake move on, this country has a war to fight”, you could hear a very familiar British sound: The Establishment covering its backside by circling its wagons around its own crap-show.
Arguing that it’s impossible for Johnson to resign for lying to Parliament because we are in the midst of a war, was insulting on many levels. Currie claimed it was vital he is not distracted from Ukraine because it’s “a war about our values” without seeing the irony in a man who denigrates so-called British values of decency and honesty whenever he opens his mouth.
Plus, this is a war we aren’t actually fighting, in a country we care so little about we have chosen to strangle any fleeing refugees with red tape so they become someone else’s problem. And we supposedly have a brave war leader who allowed himself to be, erm… “ambushed by a cake”.
Every Tory knows full well Johnson held lockdown parties and lied to Parliament about them but they have sunk so low they will suffer any amount of humiliation so long as they can cling to power. They are cowardly lickspittles trapped under the heel of their chosen dictator.
Maybe they should ask themselves what right they have to lecture the Russian people about keeping a criminal ogre in power when that is precisely what they are doing.
Not to mention making a country already dragged low by their leader’s deceit and buffoonery look as hideous as Michael Fabricant’s head.
