From the delusional to purely transactional, MPs queued up with excuses for backing the PM
Tue 7 Jun 2022 17.49 BSTithin minutes of the greased piglet proving to be rather less slippery than his supporters had expected, Operation Save Big Dog went into overdrive, with loyal MPs. First up was Nadhim Zahawi. “There was a ballot,” he said. Nothing gets past him. “Fifty plus one is a majority and Boris did much better than that.” Er, quite. If by better, you mean worse than Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, both of whom were effectively finished as prime minister.
and declared her a goner after her confidence vote, was now openly saying that Boris – smaller majority and all – had proved himself a winner and should be left alone. It wasn’t for dissident MPs to replace a prime minister except when it suited them. In his defence, his synapses only connect at random intervals, so it may take him a while to spot the contradiction.
At least Michael Fabricant will never die wondering why he has never been promoted to a serious job. Now think of just some of the quarter-wits – take a bow Suella Braverman and Oliver Dowden – who have made it into cabinet, and you begin to get a glimpse of how breathtakingly dim Micky Fab is. Something he appears hell bent on proving on a daily basis. His take was he had been expecting the Convict to do even worse, so this was a massive result. Er. Not sure that was quite the line.
Cabinet ministers, such as Liz Truss, Michael Gove and Rishi Sunak, were rather more neutral in their support. If one of them had the imagination, the wit and the talent, they’d be looking to ease the Convict out. But they are all hopeless so they did the bare minimum, hoping someone else would be the first to knife Boris. No one did, so they were obliged to sit like tailors’ dummies while– every bit as tone deaf as his appeal to Tory MPs the day before – at the start of the cabinet meeting.
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