Since this is extremely enlightening — and hilarious — I wanted to share it with those of you who aren’t around for the early-morning thread. Thanks, Tony!
Over here on the shores of Fiddle-Earth it certainly looks like a critical mass of the financial interests that own the Tory Party have come to the conclusion that, with The Great British Brexit an established boot on the throat of the UK’s workers and the NHS doing sterling work pulling the Government’s exposed knackerjacks out of the Covid fire, they’ve probably squeezed all of the electoral mileage they can out of Flobalob Johnson’s ‘Roly-Poly Rascal with Rumpy-Pumpy Ways’ act and have therefore authorised the drawing and inserting of multiple knives into his wine-soaked carapace.
Leakers have started trashing him to their chums in the corporate media, which is par for the course where Tories and their internal feuds are concerned, but those chums have actually stared filing articles on the trashing rather than keeping it all on the down-low as ‘background’ for their inevitable tell-all books, which is wildly out of character for our doormat Press where their good friend ‘Boris’ is concerned and proof positive that his days of sloth and gluttony are definitely numbered. Word must have gone out from the paramount thrones of media power that the dense protective cordon erected around the Bullingdon Bully long before he won the Tory Party leadership is no longer in effect, leaving political editors across the Infotainment industry aquiver with anticipation over yet another Tory Party coronation.
As to the actual allegations themselves (always secondary in importance to the narrative they’re used to support) it’s being reported as multi-sourced and credibly witnessed that Johnson was overheard around the time of the 2nd National Lockdown angrily refusing to consider the possibility of ordering a 3rd Lockdown, regardless of the scientific advice, saying that he would rather “see bodies pile high in their thousands”. He’s denying it, of course, but he’s also denying –
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