Hilarious! David Davis claims to have spent weeks defending Liar Johnson from “angry constituents”... by reminding them of the “successes of Brexit”. It's tempting to say "you couldn't make it up". But therein lies the problem: that's precisely what they do. All the time.

Maybe Johnson is due his reckoning. Maybe it is only a fraction of what he deserves. But the worry is - what do cornered vipers so often do to save their own skin? Manufacture a confrontation with "the foreigners" and whip up their nationalist base. Careful eyes on NI talks...

I find myself humming the very end of Don Giovanni:

<<Questo è il fin di chi fa mal,
e de' perfidi la morte
alla vita è sempre ugual!>>

Except the just deserts that Scoundrel Johnson looks due to get, are but the tiniest morsel of what the blobfaced conartist truly deserves.

Interesting to watch the BBC's excellent, robust, fact-driven analysis of how the self-serving lies & idle fantasies of an unprincipled charlatan, his ideological cronies & fanatical fanbase have poisoned politics & divided a population. In the US.

David Frost, Unelected Cronycrat, Champion of Mediocrity, Embodiment of Brexit Unhingement, Wanton Threat to Peace in Ireland, R.I.H.

Why do I regard the Johnson Government as a direct and serious threat to UK democracy, hope that the opposition parties will find sufficient common ground to work together, and use that joint momentum to reconstitute UK democracy on a much more solid footing? In a nutshell: