IT’S an image that in angier lands would have sparked a bloody revolution.
Our new Prime Minister, on day one in the job, lounging on a Commons bench and fiddling with his phone while an opposition spokesman holds the floor.
Then, when pulled up for his insolence, he pulls faces and plays to the gallery by braying that said spokesman should “say something more interesting”.
This was on Thursday, the ink barely dry on that morning’s column warning that this malevolent iced bun was laughing at the lot of us for handing him the keys to the country.
And here he was, smirking in the face of the SNP’s Ian Blackford, the perfect snapshot of what those words had tried to put across — how, rather than an overwhelming majority instilling in him the desire to become the leader we need, all it does is allow him to treat us with the contempt he believes we deserve.
This will be the next five years for Britain, a nation where every day our leaders push our buttons till they break, daring us to stand up to them. And where anyone who DOES stand up to THEM gets a wedgie and their dinner money nicked.
In the face of this instant confirmation of the PM’s disregard for democracy and decency, I therefore make no apologies for returning to the subject of that last column by calling for those Nats to channel their justifiable fury in a far more constructive way than stamping their feet for as many IndyRefs as it takes to finally wear Scotland into submission.
Because if Johnson’s slovenly, Bullingdon Club behaviour the moment his Government took office doesn’t make Blackford and the rest realise what REALLY matters to this country right now…well, he deserves all the public humiliation he gets.
You don’t run away from bullies, as Nicola Sturgeon wants us to. You don’t create a diversion and leave others to suffer the wedgies. No, you stay and you stand up to the rotten, cowardly b******s.
In this case, that means — and again, no apologies for repeating myself — banding together with Labour and the LibDems, the Greens and the Welsh Nats and the Norn Irish to form a SuperParty that puts those b******s back in their box.
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I can’t believe that, for one, the only socialist in the village would disagree with this. We’re talking here of Ian Murray, who despite being Labour’s last MP standing up here has been snubbed as Shadow Scots Secretary, the post going instead to some gonk from Rochdale.
Surely to goodness he and all his sane, non-Corbynista comrades across the UK must react to that by walking away and starting again? You’d think. Yet on Thursday, there was wee Nicola, playing to HER gallery in Edinburgh as dispiritingly as Johnson was in London.
It’s genuinely sad to see someone with so much power failing so miserably to accept the responsibility that comes with it.
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If only she could see that as part of a SuperParty that took Britain back from the most horrible Tory mob in history, she could offer Scotland more devolution without the risks that would come with independence, while also having the say she craves in Westminster.
To me, it’s an absolute Boris of a proposition.
As in, a no-brainer.
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