Horse 3036 - The Howling Morons Have Stopped Howling

All the way back in Horse 2188, I said that:

https://rollo75.blogspot.com/2016/11/horse-2188-trump-wins-in-2016.html

In the UK, Britain voted to leave the EU and David Cameron resigned because he couldn't hold the party together. The current Prime Minister Teresa May always looks perpetually stunned and I would not be at all surprised if she too is knifed by a blithering idiot like Boris Johnson. It just might be possible that by the next British General Election, that Donald Trump and Boris Johnson could be leading the governments of the anglosphere. Of course Australia would have to follow suit at some point and probably appoint Spud Dutton or worse, Christopher Pyne or Treasurer Scott Morrison, to form a grinning triumvirate of Howling Morons across the anglosphere.

The only thing that I can say is that the Howling Morons are howling louder than ever before and it is beyond my ability to comprehend why. What is this? I don't even.

- Horse 2188, 9th Nov 2016

Now I am not going to claim for a second to have the gift of prophecy but it seemed pretty obvious to me back then that parts of the Anglosphere were being pushed massively to the right; at the expense of common sense and decency. This was being aided and abetted by church groups who were being openly used as vote vending machines and sections of the secular right who couldn't honestly give two hoots about the welfare of anyone but themselves. In short, you do not need a weatherman to see which way the wind blows and back then, the winds were guff powered. 

I can report that following the revolt of more than 50 Tory Ministers and Aides, it looks like that Boris Johnson will finally be convinced that he should enjoy the Stewardship Of The Chiltern Hundreds, and that the Festival Of The Howling Moron might finally be coming to a close.

As usual, there is no story told in a vacuum; so we have to look back into the fog of history to see how we got here.

Way back in the day, after Maggie Thatcher had sold out the soul of the Conservative Party to the lowest bidder and John Major (Britain's last actually good Prime Minister) successfully lost the unwinnable election, Tony Blair was swept to power in a wave of Cool Britannia and abandoning everything that Labour stood for. Maggie Thatcher celebrated her successful destruction of the fabric of British life, by being kicked upstairs to the House of Lords, going off in an alcoholic haze, getting Alzheimer's and ultimately never answering for what she did.

Tony Blair after spending three glorious years by not doing anything but most importantly not being Maggie Thatcher, then decided to pony up to George W Bush. Together they

went to war in Iraq on the basis of lies, and in time Blair was replaced by Gordon Brown (texture like sun), and would also never answer for what he did.

The Tory Replacement Bus Service made a deal with UKIP after having to endure five years of sharing (no) power with the Liberal Democrats and after a period of austerity, David Cameron made a promise to the racists of Britain to go for a full English Brexit. That promise foisted Cameron by his own petard, exploded Teresa May, and after nobody at all wanted the job, comedy blatherer and pantomime Mayor of London Boris Johnson took up the job, and has spent his time comedy blathering and pantomiming it up in Number 10 Downing Street. Has he been a good Prime Minister? Oh no he hasn't!

Basically ever since Maggie Thatcher sold out the governance of the United Kingdom to "The City", Westminster and Number 10 have been on a default project of dancing the Charleston while Great Britain aka HMS Colander, slowly sinks beneath the waves. 

Cruelty, Boredom, Cool, Apathy, Austerity, Awkward, Comedy - this is the worst production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, ever. 

Johnson never really stood a chance of being even a part way decent Prime Minister because as the head of the executive of the Tories, decency just hasn't been a policy option open to him. It certainly hasn't helped that this plague came along; which has only heightened the visible signs that the Tories do not think that the rules apply to them. Even the phrase that he was "Ambushed by cake" when giving an explanation as to why there were parties going on inside Number 10 Downing Street while the rest of the country was in lockdown, is emblematic of a party whose consistent policy line has been to ensure that more rewards of society go to the already rich and powerful. Even in the middle of an inflationary period which is being driven by an shock in oil prices, the solution being put forward is not the destruction of money through taxation which would have stabilised the value of the Pound Sterling but ever more tax cuts.

This current chain of events which led to the massive walkout, started on 29th June when the Conservative deputy chief whip Chris Pincher, went to a private members' club in London and was accused of groping two men. He claimed that  "drank far too much and embarrassed himself" and Johnson was not aware of any specific allegations about Mr Pincher before appointing him as deputy chief whip in February. The problem was that Johnson completely knew about the allegations and appointed Mr Pincher anyway.

This led to a review of Johnson's voted to pause a 30-day suspension for then-Conservative MP Owen Paterson who had broken lobbying rules, to try to benefit companies who paid him under the table.

All of this is in addition to the report by Sue Gray who described a heap of parties going on inside Number 10, while Metropolitan Police issued 126 fines to 83 people for breaking lockdown rules in Downing Street and Whitehall.

If we had entered a sensible timeline, then Boris Johnson would have been a perennially beloved comedy blatherer on BBC Radio 4 panel shows like Clement Freud or Gyles Brandreth. Mind you, the most sensible choice of American President would have been Paul Ryan but that didn't happen either. Instead, the world got accidentally switched to Stupid Mode and the Anglosphere performed an experiment in executive government by Top Bantz. Guess what? It doesn't work.

The problem for the Tory Party is that it now has the same job that it was facing only a few years ago. It has to fill a job which nobody wants to do, with candidates who are definitely committed to not doing the job well; except that on this occasion it has to fill the job from a pool of candidates whom nobody has heard of.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the next British Prime Minister might very well be the current Minister For The 1920s, Jacob Rees-Mogg. 

Here we are. The Festival Of The Howling Moron might be coming to a close. Australia has elected a remarkably competent Prime Minister to office. America has elected a calm President to office. We do not yet know who Great Britain will install.

What we do know is that we the audience of BBC Radio 4 panel shows have been denied Boris Johnson as the comedy blatherer that he should have been and that's terrible.