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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Vaguely Remembering Chilcot

Like any other value judgement, the determination of what constitutes an elder statesman is necessarily subjective and relative; and in the era of Johnson, Gove and little Gavin it's possible that even a toadying thug like Bernard Jenkin may fancy himself the part. Jenkin has been uttering oracular warnings about the potential misdeeds of future prime ministers, one or two of whom may somehow sneak into high office despite lacking the strength, stability and moral fibre of Tumbledown Tessie. Specifically, Jenkin and the Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee are concerned about the prospect of a prime minister who might be tempted to engage in wog-bombing before due and proper consultation with every crook, thug, toady, sycophant, spiv, groupie, gargoyle, placeman, popinjay, nincompoop, nobody and cretin in the cabinet. Such, as we know, was the criminally erroneous if handily non-actionable course taken by the Reverend Blair while plotting the great wog-bombing in Iraq, despite the statesmanlike note of caution sounded by one Bernard Jenkin. Still, a mere two years after the Chilcot report was published, it is certainly encouraging that an entire parliamentary committee has been set up to make it look as if someone were interested.

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