The Mother of Parliaments, eh?

PMQs, ever a bear garden, now sees the latest Rt Hon First Lord of the Treasury for the time being resorting to red-top style name calling.  His right wing is forcing him to move yet again towards breaking international law on human rights (the Universal Declaration on which was a British invention, long before the UK’s membership of the EU and, of course, entirely separate from it, then as now).  The only other European countries derogating from it are those havens of liberal democracy, Belarus and the Russian Federation.  Not, as the Rt Hon Mr ‘Cleverly’ puts it, a club of which we should be aspiring to membership. 

This utterance may perhaps damage Mr ‘Cleverly’s’ chances of filling the new deputy PM vacancy, so truculently created by the previous incumbent’s resignation to avoid dismissal.  This follows some five months of enquiry by a silk, whose fee will have cost the taxpayer a score or two of doctors’ salaries.  All entirely wasted, since Raab might in other times have been expected to resign or be sacked long ago.  But some might say he lacks the decency to do the former, and his ex-boss the balls to do the latter - not that I could personally express a view.

Integrity, Professionalism and Accountability, eh?  Well, I suppose we can hope.