Out of the mouth of the tin pot twerp

This is going to be a long, long, long year in politics. There will be a General Election and the focus of the Tories moves from governing to surviving.

Is it just me or is Sunak becoming quite like Johnson and Trump, in that it is almost impossible to listen to him speak?  It only becomes tolerable when what he says is relayed in print. Sunak is one of the most irritating people out there. John Crace has described it like listening to a 'nasal mosquito'. Throw in his “message discipline”, repeating the same attack lines ad nauseum, and it is enough to drive any follower of politics completely insane. 

Rishi Sunak claimed yesterday that “the Conservative party is completely united in wanting to deliver for the country ….. ”  And he said it with a straight face. Or rather, he lied with a straight face. Despite all the Tory venom recently about the Rwanda debate, he still lies about unity. They think we are stupid. And later, a spokesman for No.10 denied that the earth revolved around the sun, that this was a myth peddled by a leftist, woke, biased, London-based media and that the “common sense view of hard working people” is that the “world is flat.” I've made this bit up but some of the stuff they want us to believe is equally far-fetched. 

Sunak went on to say of the House of Lords. “Will the opposition in the appointed House of Lords try and frustrate the will of the people as expressed by the elected house? Or will they get on board and do the right thing?”

Let’s look at that closely. It is a threat. It seeks to delegitimise the second chamber of the UK Parliament. It embraces the notion of elites out to thwart a mythical “people”. It attempts to set the government as the only true voice “of the people”. It seeks to generate frustration with parliament. It implies a conspiracy - a plot - that is out to subvert "the people". It embraces the notion that disagreement is somehow unpatriotic. A strategy of the worse Trumpian kind.

This is simply wrong. It is shameful. If it were not so dangerous, coming from this tin pot twerp it would be laughable. And there's more to come from this lot. Look out for the lies.