Both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss voted against their own government yesterday and against the Windsor Framework, they were joined by just 20 other Tory MPs.
Previously if the two most recent Tory party leaders had led a revolt against their government, it would have caused a crisis, a split and a major rebellion. Newspapers and news broadcasts would have questioned the survivability of the government. Its radical shift in policies from previous administrations would have been shocking.
This time no one cares. The petulant two and their band of 20 voted against a compromise which tries to fix the utter dogs dinner they made of Brexit and they voted against it because it did not make things worse, just slightly better.
That is why the Ultras are a dead force for the duration of this parliament. Whistling in the dark, denying their best years are behind them, in terminal decline, increasingly irrelevant; they think they are Winston Churchill in exile between the wars, but they are the David Lloyd George of the 2020s.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
If Brexit were arranged so as not to be a dog's dinner, there would have been no point to it whatsoever.
Escaping the EU's financial regulatory framework for the benefit of wealthy parasites like Jacob Rees Mogg, Richard Tice and Matthew Elliott was always gong to lead to a catastrophe for everyone else. Keeping up with the xenophobic rhetoric and related Brexit pledges to placate the foreigner-hating Little Englanders was always gong to be catastrophic for the overwhelming majority.