It’s tomorrow, isn’t it? The deadly hammer blow that ends Boris’s career will be delivered by voters in the crucial Yorkshire and Devon by-elections. But hang on. The deadly hammer blow was supposed to fall two weeks ago when he narrowly survived the no-confidence vote. Then again, the hammer blow was due to knock him dead when Plod gave him a fine for toasting his staff during lockdown. And that’s after he survived the deadly hammer blow that struck as soon as the cops began probing criminality at Number 10. Spare a thought for the poor guy wielding the deadly hammer. Soon he’ll die of exhaustion.
The Commons has tired of the never-ending Boris-on-the-brink story. He’s like a billionaire patriarch, aged 89 and a half, who refuses to do the decent thing and die. So his greedy heirs have stopped gossiping about their windfalls.
Labour seemed too knackered to take aim at the PM’s wobbling authority.
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