Needling from a Haystack

The National Johnson's decision to continue the Trumpster routine by sacking his lawyers and squealing conspiracy has prompted calls for his ex-chancellor to cancel or postpone some taxpayer-funded unemployment benefits. About fifty sponsors, stooges and sycophants are set to reap their grace and favour from the great man's resignation rah-rah, but new allegations of illegal pandemic parties have precipitated further unrest among the seasick rodents in the turbid Tory bilges. Some (doubtless the more perspicacious) even claim to be baffled that a statesman of Fishy Rishi's courage, integrity and decisiveness still seems inclined to sit back and allow the erminisation of three Johnson groupies, thereby triggering three by-elections in which the gerrymandering might go almost as well as in the recent culling of the councils. On the other hand, it is possible that the Johnson nomenklatura may prove sufficiently ridiculous to distract media and public attention from any list subsequently extruded by La Truss.