SHE’S WRONG-BAILEY
POSH, male, pale and stale – we have a Cabinet of incompetents in the image of dictatorial Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
By reducing the number of women (seven to six) and ethnic minorities (four to three), while increasing the privately schooled (up two to 15), our egotistical PM mutates into a tyrannical President.
In a grotesque display of servility, terrified Tory mannequins chanted a load of pantomime lies at the Cabinet table about new hospitals and nurses to appease their puppet master.
The people’s Old Etonian will regret assuming supreme power when it all goes wrong and the blame for cockups and conspiracies leads directly to No10 because that’s the only path.
So if Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is right about the March 11 Budget being delayed, then it is First Lord of the Treasury Johnson’s fault as he turned 11 Downing Street into 10A.
Puppet Chancellor Rishi Sunak, indelicately nicknamed the Maharaja of Yorkshire and facing questions over financial deals which made him a millionaire in his 20s, is the ventriloquist’s dummy. But Johnson’s honey
ENVIRONMENT Secretary George Eustice’s 29 taxpayer-funded flights between London and his Cornish constituency means we hear a lot of hot air from a minister supposed to be fighting climate change.
DESPERATION oozed from the Continuity Corbyn candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey’s sly “establishment” dig at Labour’s likely next leader, Keir Starmer.
Her sneering “you just can’t put on a nice suit and be a bit suave and think that’s a route into Downing Street” attack told us more about a spluttering machine campaign than a nurse’s son who has risen to the top.
Two Labour strategists, neither Starmer supporters, insisted to me that Long-Bailey risks finishing third behind Lisa Nandy and a Sir Keir grabbing Jezza’s tarnished crown.
Voting starts on Friday with the result due on April 4, so anything could happen during six of Harold Wilson’s long weeks in politics.
I maintain that Lisa Nandy would be Labour’s smartest choice.
But if Long-Bailey is dismissively hostile to Starmer she should rule herself out of his Shadow Cabinet, instead of whining that he hasn’t guaranteed her a seat.
SNEERING Long-Bailey moon will end abruptly if Labour picks Lisa Nandy or Keir Starmer as party leader. Blue bricks in the red wall aren’t as solid as Tories like to pretend.
Sajid Javid quitting as Chancellor exposed Johnson’s struggle to square satisfying London hedge fund fat cats and northern England’s grafters.
Posing both as a tax cutter and big public spender is a deceit that will end in spiralling debt and Tory tears.
The sleaze probe over who paid Johnson’s £15,000 Caribbean Christmas bill and criticism that he failed to visit Yorkshire’s flooded communities symbolise the private and public contempt of a chancer. It’s not lost “oop North” that Johnson pulled on his wellies before the election because votes were at stake. This side of that contest, he floats unhurried on an 80-seat majority with almost five more years in the bank.
Most of his Cabinet are second and third-raters, narcissists preferring sycophants to critical friends.
Free thinkers, independents and even people who simply do their jobs properly are a threat to Johnson.
It’s why he’s sacrificed good governance and what’s best for the country to surround himself with Tory toadies.
It will be an unhappy
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60th birthday on Wednesday for Prince Andrew when the FBI want the paedophiles’ friend for questioning. The craven leader of any council that flies the Union Flag over the town hall to honour this shamed royal will be invited to answer public hostility and attend a Buckingham Palace garden party.
MY ermined snout whispers that
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Jeremy Corbyn’s peerages for aide Karie Murphy and former Commons Speaker John Bercow won’t be approved by a Lords vetting committee. With a convicted arsonist, jailed perjurer, dodgy donors and practised liars filling the House of Cronies surely the £323 a day tax-free question is why anybody decent would want to join.