Farage was recruited as a useful figurehead for all kinds of idiotic outrage stories, and to aggressively troll the Tories from the right: a helpful tool that could be puffed up or tamped down, as required. He was never meant to be PM and he has overstepped the mark by trying.

Take your pick...

*a hat-trick 🙃🙃🙃

Like, the reason why nobody is shouting “How were the likes of Johnson and Cummings put in a position to inflict this criminal harm upon the public” is that everybody knows what the answer is, and talking about it where the public can hear helps nobody who really matters.

George Osborne still freely going about his profitable life unhaunted by the wailing shades of the dead because, just like with Tony, his mates wanted to protect him and - by keeping him secure - fend off any negative consequences for themselves, if the public ever got wind of what they’ve done.

Austerity is an excellent comparison: an obviously calamitous policy forced through by a unified political/media class, collaborating on campaigns of idiotic lying and monstering fuck out of opponents. And now the damage is done, it is like it never happened and nobody ever did anything wrong.