Boris Johnson's chest of drawers

Borrowing an old NewsThump joke... this isn't a cabinet, it's a chest of drawers at the most.

And here we have it, a Cabinet of astonishing venality and idiocy. There are people in there who spoke in favour of the death penalty, who threatened Ireland with food shortages if they continued to hamper Brexit with their pesky border, who oppose gay marriage and who lobby for the tobacco and alcohol industries. And that’s just the human atrocity that is Priti Patel. 

The new Culture Secretary, Nicky Morgan, is someone who said that school pupils were “held back” by studying the arts. That’s quite the appreciation of culture there. The new Housing Secretary is Esther McVey, someone most of us would hesitate to put in charge of a potato gun. Or even a potato. The new Foreign Secretary, the de-facto Deputy Prime Minister, is none other than Dominic Raab. Seriously, it’s Dominic Raab. The guy who hadn’t realised the UK did a lot of trade through the Dover-Calais route.

At least Boris knows enough about other countries to hurl racial abuse at them - I doubt Dominic Raab knows even that much. There's not much else I can offer here. Boris has shown his cards, and they're all dicks.

What do I take away from this ? Two things. First, the only point I disagree with is this :

What does it all mean, John? I fear it means what a senior EU official said it means last week: a No Deal Brexit has gone from being unthinkable to being an odds-on certainty.

Those of us committed to sanity cannot afford the luxury of despair, for that and that alone guarantees we hand victory to the lunatics. But we are currently at the mercy of Parliamentary technicalities and Westminster shenanigans. Boris and co shall soon encounter the brick wall that is reality, but we cannot yet know exactly how this will affect them. That's the problem of bullshit, of course - not that such people don't understand reality, but that they don't care. We're now heavily reliant on some political procedure derailing the machinations of a ship of fools, and that needs the form of a very blunt instrument. It cannot be delicate negotiations and empty promises. It needs something so incredibly direct that even Boris can't ignore it.

Second, supposing that England does decide it wants to carry on laughing as it falls of the cliff of sanity, then I'd be willing to give serious consideration to Welsh independence. Sometimes instruction needs take the form of punishment. So if England is so determined to screw themselves this hard, to wed themselves to bigots and fools, then they can sod off and sail away into the ocean somewhere. I'm quite serious. I'm no nationalist : I'd rather Wales and Scotland banded together and immediately joined the E.U., pending appropriate investment and support, and should our English brethren have the courage to say, "we made a terrible mistake", then they should be welcomed back with open arms. Were I not personally dependent on the outcome of this whole travesty of a farce of injustice, and were I not concerned that the economic fallout could drive even more people to the far right, then I'd be openly calling for a hard Brexit. Not because I think it's a good idea - it's the stupidest idea we've had in living memory - but to teach people a lesson. I'm not convinced they'll learn anything until they experience the consequences first hand.

Boris Johnson's Brexit Cabinet is stuffed full of right wing Tory idiots

Misery loves company. As does incompetence, it seems. Before we get into this, let me just see how painful it is to type the following sentence: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced his new Cabinet. Yep - pretty painful. Very, very painful. Anyway, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced his new Cabinet.