We're Going to Need a Bigger Bunker

Well, that didn't take long, did it? A mere eighteen months after the referendum which will deprive them of their seats, and a scant year from the Article 50 exit date and subsequent tender mercies of the Department of Workfare and Privation, a brace of Conservative MEPs have decided to put in a quick bit of neck-saving networking before the catastrophe, and have defected back to the mainstream right-wing bloc in the European Parliament. The British Conservative Party used to be part of this group, but one of the earliest and silliest manoeuvres by the late Head Boy was to pull them out in order to shack up with a bunch of con-men, chancers, neo-Nazis and climate-change deniers, on the grounds that the likes of Angela Merkel were too left-wing and cosmopolitan to aid his appeasement of the Farage Falange. Now that the Head Boy has retired to spend more time at the home trough, and the strutting Caudillo of the Farage Falange has been promoted to Donald Trump's lift-boy, it seems this is the moment for certain Conservatives to realise suddenly that their constituents would be better served from elsewhere.