Peak Boris

With this Government i do sometimes think we are living in some sort of warped version of the Emperors new clothes but that would mean i would have to think of Boris Johnson naked and more than enough females have had that glorious sight and i would be googling ways to blind myself if that ever happened but over the last few days we have had the full Johnson experience.
It all began when Conservative MP Owen Patterson was not so much caught red handed taking £100,000 to lobby on behalf of his employers, his hands were rainbow coloured when the Standards Commissioner, Kathryn Stone, said he was all kinds of guilty and should be suspended for the 30 days which would trigger a by-election.
Boris then swung into action to get his close friend off the hook, three line whipping his fellow Tories to vote against the punishment on fear of losing their jobs or facing cuts for their constituency and declaring the Standards Committee unfit for purpose and planning to replace it therefore rendering the adjudication null and void.
As the uproar rose, Johnson picked the Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to pop out and do the media rounds to defend the PM’s attempt to get Owen Paterson off the hook and explain why the commissioner for standards would have to resign then after a couple of interviews where he ummed and erred his way through them like an idiot, Boris changed his mind and announced that they would abide by the original ruling and it had all been a misunderstanding forcing Owen to do the most gracious and sensible a Tory MP can do and resigned.
Boris has been on TV this afternoon saying that he is very sad that parliament will lose the services of Owen Paterson who has been a friend and colleague of his for decades but obviously not enough of a friend that he bothered to tell him that he was abandoning him as Patterson found out from a BBC reporter.
Now that Kathryn Stone and her committee have cleared the in-tray of the Owen affair, they are free to take up th next MP on the take on the agenda who just happens to be a Mr B. Johnson which explains why the scrapping of the Standards Committee seems so appealing to him.
Already the proud owner of several investigations against him, pending is an investigation into the extravagant refurbishment of Johnson’s Downing Street flat, how it was paid for and a couple of undeclared all expenses holidays along with a whole lot of other difficult questions that will have the prime minister sweating like glassblowers arse.
We can only how big the dead cat he will inevitably lob on the table will need to be to shift this one, i'm thinking sabre toothed tiger at least.