Infra Digger

While the more principled stalwarts of his parliamentary party vociferously declare him a liar and cheat who probably ought not to resign just yet, the National Johnson has been demonstrating his own brand of statesmanlike tact on his rah-and-blah to the Empire. Although he has so far managed to refrain from quoting Kipling, telling wog jokes or trying to sell statues of Robert Clive, he did manage to inflict his presence on a JCB factory in the middle of a controversy about the use of JCBs to demolish Muslim settlements in Delhi. Asked whether he planned to discuss the demolitions with his fellow Muslim-baiter Narendra Modi, the bargain-basement Churchill replied that India is a democracy with an awful lot of people in it. Not very surprisingly, the chairman of the JCB company happens to be a Party donor, and in 2019 Johnson personally received an entirely coincidental five-figure donation from JCB a fairly unsurprising three days before praising the company in a speech. A little more surprisingly, especially in so eminent a Latin scholar and so prolific a breeder, while stressing the closeness of a corrupt, dirty, superstitious and caste-ridden country to India he also managed to confuse the umbilical cord with the navel.