Lord of misrule

Once a year, Tudors elected a Lord of Misrule to oversee the Christmas festivities. In Abbeys, boy bishops were also alected.

This is for one day, when the usual laws and rules regarding their deeply regulated lives would be turned upside down.

Instead of chastity, there would be lust. Instead of fruaglity, there would be feasting. Instead of piousness, there would be rowdiness.

No one in their right mind would elect a Lord of Misrule for the other 364 days, that would be madness. And yet the UK elected their own Lord of Misrule to be Prime Minister.

Boris Johnson is a character, as much as Tommy Cooper was, or any other familiar clowns were. Before making a speach or public appearance, he ruffles his hair to "become" Boris.

He has ruffled hair, baggy clothes, makes poor jokes and has an afffected way of speaking, applogising over and over again for being himself.

Boris has always been Boris. Tilting against bendy bananas or condoms that are too small. Its all a jape. As should have been PM. Elected to get Brexit done, though not really understanding or caring what the cnsequences were for the country or those who live in it.

He wrote two articles, one to leave, one to stay. Either good, but which one would serve hom better? In the end, leaving.

Only, despite the warnings, he doesn't much like the consequences. But that's not his fault. It's the EU's or something else. How should he know what the conseqences of his own policies would be?

With a leader like that, no wonder the UK is in a mess.

The Biden Administration today reaffirmed its commitment to the GFA, not Brexit, and warned, again, of anything that harmed it. Doesn't sound much like a country who would rush into a trade deal with us, certainly not on our terms, but I could be wrong.

So, breaking an international treaty will have consequences.

Pacta sunt servanda.

In other words: if you have signed it, you do it.

Agreements must be kept.

Or there will be consequences, and not the ones you might have expected.

Playing to the cheap seats in the Daily Mail and Express might be good for the party faithful, but not on an internatioanl stage.

Not so Priti leaked a story to several nespapers overnight that immigrants would be deported for processing to a third country; the Isle of Man, Gibralter or Turkey. Isle of Man rejected any contact with Patel or the UK Government. As did Gibraltar.

No basis in truth, but it got good headlines this morning, but upset two Crown Dependancies.

And now, having handpicked a commission to look at Judicial Review, who came back with their report today saying the opposite of what the Government wanted, so Johnson has to dress it up as "continuing the conversation" to protect the independence of the Judicary by making it harder for it to find the Prime Minister of other Ministers having broken the law.

The fight will go on, and even if passed, challenged.

All so the Government can rule without scrutiny, doing as it sees fit, bypassing Parliament, breaking laws.

A dangerous path.

Johnson, like Trump, is the clown distraction that takes your attention while others destroy your rights and our democracy.