JUST BORIS BEING BORIS : The United Kingdom is at risk of spontaneous street parties today as the reality of having a ‘strong man’ as prime minister sinks in.
“It’s not just the PM who is strong,” a Downing Street ‘source’ told LCD Views, “let me tell you, I’ve just got to say, his special advisor is strong too. Like Heracles strong. And smart. Real, real smart. Probably the smartest man in Britain, if not the world.”
The dawning realisation of what it is like to live in a one party state with a father figure as leader has been sinking in, perhaps too slowly, for some weeks.
“It’s sped up, the sinking feeling, since the Supreme Court judgement,” the source continued, “not knowing whether or not the executive will obey the law? That’s a fresh sensation for the UK. So too the subtle and nuanced messages about MPs voting the right way to feel safe. You know what to do MPs!”
And all this with a minority government. It almost beggars belief.
“It beggars credibility too. I wonder just how many billions are riding on the strongman remaining strong? No surrender! There’s a currency to crash. Do or die is starting to take on some interesting implications.”
How long the strongman will continue to be in position, if not really power, is a new question too.
“Well, if we get the bullying right, potentially forever. You know the blueprint. Democratically elected. Hold a dodgy referendum. Use that criminally procured result as a mandate to defend the chosen people against enemies, internal and external. Next stop is palaces and as much gold as you can eat. You don’t get that sort of governance with girlyswots!”
But what will happen if the streets of the country are filled with spontaneous street parties?
“The Civil Contingencies Act is what. At least that’s what we strongmen plan.”
Interesting to know. Perhaps the girlyswots might like to democratically remove the strongman from government? Sooner, rather than later…
“No time like the present.”
There certainly isn’t.