Since his accession, Mr Johnson had been upping the ante with regard to a “No Deal Brexit” and spraying money here, there and everywhere, as if Austerity had never existed.
But where was all that Tory money coming from, with our economy tanking ? What about these many years of austerity cuts we’d been suffering from ? Those savings that… continue reading
Mr Toad Leapfrogs the Stars
The Parrot Meets Mr Toad
This piece was written immediately after we heard that Boris Johnson had won the Tory leadership contest. The image of Mr Toad, a rather puffed up character in the children’s book “The Wind in the Willows” had already occurred to me.
The Tories seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of plagues with which to assail the UK. Here was their… continue reading