One of the most educational and unedifying experiences I had in the Civil Service was every 6 months to see the great and the good prostate themselves in the private office for worthless gongs that their wives craved. But that was small potatoes compared to the PM's powers of preferment. Dominic Rabb's public humiliation at the hands of the smirking Oily Robbins at the select committee hearings this week shows just how low politicians will sink to get their feet under the Cabinet table. I have never seen a minister so publicly humiliated by a civil servant.with the PM's obvious blessing
Why did Rabb accept this humiliation? Simples, it was for position, prestige and money. Hancock was sacked by May from his Cabinet minister position but crawled back into favour on his belly. Rabb is doing the same.
BoJo as a man of proven electoral appeal and distinct identity and real talent left at the timer of his choosing. He will be back at the head of an army of angry betrayed grassroots Tories to defenestrate the Maybot and her army of identikit Tory clones
Rabb, Hancock both still think they might be the next Tory leader anointed by St Theresa in the cornfield. The bookies favourite however is still BoJo so Hancock and Rabb although blessed by Tory high command will lose if the vote goes to the membership.
I quote from comment central
http://commentcentral.co.uk/the-slow-painful-death-of-tory-england/
"The tragedy of Mrs May’s premiership is that she drags others down with her. Popular MPs like James Cleverley are deployed to advocate policies they came into politics to oppose. Cabinet Ministers practising sophistry when advocating for her fake Brexit lose the respect of their followers while the Tory party as a whole is mistrusted by its own voters. The internet has a long memory and clips will haunt those loyalists if they ever get a leader to the right of Ed Miliband. Mrs May’s Machiavellian skills have long been apparent to political anoraks, but they are not the tactics needed for a party with no majority and a largely single-issue base in a rare state of hyper attention. In seeking to split the Brexiteers, she split the party. Surely the art of politics is to do that to the opposition"
Unlike the Donald, Mrs May has not realised the power of the internet
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This is my post on Boris, on the blog EU Referendum, just after his resignation:-
With regards BJ's resignation Mrs May could do no better than to quote Disraeli's description of Gladstone :-
"a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself."
I cannot think of one policy decision that BJ executed that has been successful.
The Boris' Bikes were I gather started by Livingstone and as for his 'vanity high profile' Bike Lanes they are a costly white elephant. As you may or may not realise his bike lanes follow major routes chosen for no other reason than they thus have a high visible profile something our 'Green' brothers and sisters like as it makes an environmental point few can miss. The fact that they use up a lane previously occupied by a vehicle and are only mainly used by cyclists during rush hour is neither here nor there. The lanes have made congestion worse in London.
The real absurdity of these lanes is that there was a far more effective, cheaper but low-profile alternative that was hardly even considered. This was to create a colour coded route plan (similiar to the tube map) to use the back lanes and roads around the city to get bikers from A to B. This would have required no major road works just some road signs and colour painted road markings.
However, to make his mark Boris went for the high-profile option. This typifies his lazy egotistical attitude to work - it was all about promoting himself.
The only good things one can say about Boris is that he was a colourful character who could be amusing but in the main he was a lazy, arrogant, ignorant and incompetent self-publicist.
Good riddance Boris you typify a large part of what is wrong with our political system of governance.
Lets have a few more boring non=entities is the Major's message.
Come now Eric that is NOT the case - I'm all for characters but I do require them to be competent and to put our country before their party or their own ambitions.
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