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Protesters in the Colombian Senate, enraged at the dishonest activities of former conservative president Alvaro Uribe, threw four live rodents on to the floor of the House during a judicial hearing on corruption this week.
A stunt which had many of the sleekit senators turning tail, shrieking in horror and scurrying over the benches for cover.
Meanwhile, our beleaguered PM,
Theresa May, didn’t have to worry about a bag of rodents being tossed her way, not when she is surrounded by the biggest colony of deceitful ratbags to ever scamper through the corridors of Westminster.
With the amount of vitriol that’s been levelled at her, especially from her ain, I have to feel a modicum of sympathy, even slight admiration for her and the way she has doggedly fought her corner.
She was forced to do it again this week, beating off a midweek challenge to her fragile leadership by her Tory Jacob Rees-mogg Brexit rebels, and eventually won her party’s humiliating vote of no confidence.
The fact that she did so with a less than convincing majority, and then only after she promised not to stand as party leader in the 2022 General Election was bad enough.
But the fact that this vote was called for at all, at such a pivotal moment in history, was beyond contempt.
Driven by the likes of Jacob Rees-mogg this was a distraction that no one, especially the electorate, needed or wanted.
Surely the Brexit rebels knew that May would win?
This self-righteous lot of pompous Tory lemmings would rather they took their party over the edge of the Brexit abyss before they were to stop their pathetic in-fighting and instead start fighting, as one, for the UK.
Well there is no chance of that