‘You’re an accountant. You’re in a noble profession. The word “Count” is part of your title,’ the corrupt impresario Max Bialystock tells the neurotic bean-counter Leo Bloom in The Producers.
Just a few weeks ago MPs from all parties had convinced themselves of something similar as they came together to pay tribute to David Amess. MP after MP spoke movingly about how they were all in it for the best of motives and how the public realm would be better served if everyone cut out ad hominem attacks on political opponents.
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner even put out an apparently heartfelt statement of regret about having described Boris Johnson’s MPs as ‘scum’ and promised to do better in future.
Well, that didn’t last long, did it? Aggro Angie is back doing what she does best – punching Tory bruises with a brutal ferocity. ‘The UK is not corrupt. Boris Johnson and his government is corrupt,’ she tweeted only yesterday.
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