A Moral Intervention

Like many a god-botherer before and since, Theresa May appears reckless of the dangers involved in trying to remove a cake-crumb from her neighbour's eye while her own face is plastered with egg. Mere weeks after the news broke of illegal partying at Downing Street, Tumbledown Tessie has intervened with a solemn pronouncement upon the subject of equality before the law. The impeccable Britishness of her jeremiad (in the Maidenhead Advertiser, no less) may be gauged from her previous criticism of the National Johnson for compromising the UK's "position of global moral leadership" after its exalted apotheosis in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Windrush. Britain's leading liberal newspaper charitably refers to May as a former prime minister, rather than as the Home Secretary who illegally deported Britons because of the colour of their skin; and also tactfully omits any mention of what penalties were imposed for her criminal conduct in office. Given her record, it seems unlikely that Tumbledown Tessie really found much to disapprove beyond the idea of people enjoying themselves; and her opinion of the witless incompetent who appointed Johnson as Foreign Secretary is presumably being saved for the memoirs.