Treating grafters with contempt

destroying this tottering government. The only upside is that Hammond the Hammer destroys himself as he pulverises nurses, teachers, coppers, firefighters, council workers, Jobcentre staff, squaddies and everybody else.

Backstabbing by Cabinet colleagues emphasises the Chancer’s increasing isolation. Some of the Tory knockers are Brexit zealots undermining the Remainer in the Treasury.

Others are rivals for weak and wobbly’s Theresa May’s slipping crown.

A number will be both, driven by the poisonous passion for Tory fratricide which treats him as the enemy and Labour a mere opposition.

Hammond treats working Britons with contempt. And this rich man will pay dearly for his objectionable politics in denying the poor a wage rise.