Greased piglets get eaten, eventually.
I am not an expert on county fairs of the past, but my impression was that the competition to catch the greased piglet was great fun for everyone but the greased piglet. Which was not only terrified and remorselessly chased but also eventually caught and taken home by the winner and eaten.
This is why I am not as interested as many are in Boris Johnson’s lying and his attempt to get away with lying at the Privileges Committee today. He was after all ousted by his party for being such a blatant serial liar the Cabinet resigned en masse.
There is a hard core Tory MPs and ministers, a good majority, who know if he ever got back into power their careers wold be over and the party totally taken over by the ERG, the only grouping stupid enough to serve under Boris II. But that is increasingly unlikely.
That majority with blood on their hands is not going away, also every day that Rishi Sunak stays in power, doesn’t lie, doesn’t screw up Brexit, survives a recession, stays boring, doesn’t have parties during lockdown, doesn’t disappear for weeks to earn millions; is a defeat for Johnson.
The road back for B. Johnson gets longer and more difficult, the incumbents more powerful and established, the electorate more forgetful, the Johnson loyalists less important and more marginalised.
The greased piglet has already been caught, today just decides whether he is flash fried or slow roasted.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media