Suzanne Harrington: Pedigree chums who’ve made a dog’s dinner of it

"Dominic Cummings’ revelations gave us a frisson of schadenfreude – words now banned in Brexit Britain as foreign and unpatriotic – but unlike Cummings, Johnson is still here."
Suzanne Harrington: Pedigree chums who’ve made a dog’s dinner of it

Holy shitshow, Batman. Think you’ve got problems? Imagine waking up in Conservative Britain every morning. It’s not that Boris Johnson and his fellow poshos are incompetent sociopaths who would unplug your granny’s life support to charge their phones — we all know that — it’s that Boris Johnson is now at the stage in his political career where he could eat a baby in Trafalgar Square, covered live by the BBC, and still be in power next week.

Dominic Cummings’ revelations gave us a frisson of schadenfreude – words now banned in Brexit Britain as foreign and unpatriotic – but unlike Cummings, Johnson is still here. 

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