Imagine

Imagine being so incompetent that you lose a rigged election?

Imagine, being able to load a committee with over half the members, parachute The Minister for Chaos, Chris Grayling, as potential chairman.

And still lose?

Fellow Conservative MP, Julian Lewis, was approached by the three Labour members of the committee and the one LibDem, and was told the four would support his if he were to run for the chairmanship of the Intelligence and Security Committee. Now those 4 plus a vote by himself would make hi the chairman, and not Failing Grayling.

Grayling himself, so incompetent that he can barely find his own backside to wipe in the mornings, failed to realise there was a potential to have a vote, he assumed it was a done deal. It wasn't until five in the afternoon that he found there was to be a vote and there were two candidates.

Lewis won 5-4, and almost immediately it was suggested the report into Russian interference would be released as early as next week. Had Grayling been elected, the report would probably have been buried.

Thing is, the election of the chairman was a matter for the committee alone, and not for the PM to force one on it. It is a matter of Constitutional Law.

However, Johnson and Cummings could net it at that, and so withdrew the Whip from Lewis, therefore expelling him from the Parliamentary Conservative Party for "plotting with opposition members, or something.

So the PM and his lickspittle have made an enemy of the chair of this committee.

And today, Thursday, the Government announced in the Commons: "Russian actors sought to interfere in the 2019 General Election through through online amplification of illicitly acquired and leaked Government docs". This has been suggest an attempt to spread the blame on Russian interference onto Labour. Government refusing to give any more details on what they mean by today’s striking and politically toxic claim!

But the allegation could be as narrow as Russia Twitter bots retweeting links to things on Reddit or as significant as using political contacts to interfere.

Thing about being a leader is not just having ideas, but having the skill and ability to carry them out. That the walking brain that is Dominic Cummings has failed to do this time and time again shows how limited his abilities really are. But that won't stop him, and un-elected jobsworth given power by the laziest Prime Minister in UK Parliamentary history.

The Cabinet Office is about to publish an inquiry into the Home Secretary , Priti Patel, and is expected to be damning. So the idea is to move the Civil Servant to a new, as yet planned, department, and allow her report to wither. Patel is Grayling's only real contender for the dimmest current UK Parliamentarian. Oh but then I remembered Mark Francois.

The PM announced yesterday that there would be an independent inquiry into his Government's handling of COVID-19, but now was not the time. Of course it is very much the time as the same people in the same positions that made 65,000 excess deaths a reality will make decisions on a probable 2nd wave of infections in the autumn.

Meanwhile it has emerged that millions of pounds of unscrutinised payments made under cover of COVID preparations were made to companies not only with no connection to the supply of PPE, but were in fact for Brexit related activities. Millions were being funnelled off as hundreds of front line staff fell sick or died as a result of there being no or unsatisfactory PPE.