Deflated and Scunnered: The Party's Over for Boris Johnson
A point I made in a previous podcast - ‘the one where Marc dropped a Shirley Bassey reference’ - was that what we’re seeing right now is a little bit of history repeating.
The next stage in the evolution of scandalous stories since around October last year is to pivot from ‘something like’ the Owen Paterson saga to ‘something like’ pictures in the papers of Boris Johnson doing something indefensible.
That’s how the end of last year panned out a least.
This page covered the significance of the Owen Paterson saga over 5-separate articles, it was ‘that’ important and worth the time and effort.
It covered [and still covers] Partygate, too.
In this case, now in April, history is repeating itself over the debacle on the vote [on Thursday] to hand an investigation into whether or not Boris Johnson is in contempt of Parliament to the Privileges Committee.
Like the debacle over Owen Paterson, the government got the public mood wrong - in their eyes, as discussed previously by the way of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s unfettered access into the Conservative mind, certain portions of the Conservative Party believe the story to be “trivial fluff.”
As it turns out it isn’t.