Bozo Does Not Have A Horse

No matter how serious the corruption in and around the Tory party, and especially that not unadjacent to disgraced former alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, those in the right leaning part of our free and fearless press can content themselves that at least it’s not as bad as the worst excesses of Roman emperors like Caligula.

After all, Caligula wanted to make Incitatus, his horse, a Consul in the Roman Senate. Sad to say, he was assassinated before that event could come to pass, and equally sad to relate, we don’t do that kind of thing in the UK, so Bozo is able to indulge in the slightly less bad practice of putting forward his father’s name for a knighthood, as part of his resignation honours list.

That would be the same Stanley Johnson who flagrantly broke lockdown rules (like father, like son), was accused of being a sex pest (ditto), and beat up his former wife, Bozo’s mother, to the extent that he broke her nose. While such a nomination sends the worst possible signal on domestic abuse, at least we read that Stan deeply regrets what he did, so that’s all right, then.

And while those out there on the right are playing “look over there” by howling with joy at Labour leader Keir Starmer coming over all evasive under questioning from LBC’s Gammon Emeritus Nick Ferrari on when he first approached Sue Gray about becoming his new chief of staff, the Bozo honours list is not going to go away. Because it’s about more than Stan.

Indeed, that list contains an awful lot of names which are, shall we say, a tad controversial. The only saving grace is that, unlike his contemporary and predecessor Young Dave, he does not have a horse. So perhaps we should be thankful for that news: instead, as Peter Walker at the Guardian has noted, we should, rather, be wary of other names being allegedly pitched.

After telling readers “Boris Johnson has been accused of having ‘discredited the honours system’ after it was reported that his long-delayed resignation list includes a knighthood nomination for his father, Stanley Johnson”, he reminds us “Previous reports have suggested Johnson could also be considering honours for his wife, Carrie Johnson, and his sister, Rachel Johnson. As prime minister he made his brother, Jo Johnson, a peer”. There was more.

“According to other reports, among those in line for peerages are the former culture secretary Nadine Dorries and the former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre”. Arise Lord Effing And Blindigham of Arnos Grove in the London Borough of Enfield. Or perhaps it will be Earl Vagina of Monologue. And it got worse.

“Other reports have said peerages could also go to Ross Kempsell, 30, who formerly worked for Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV station as political editor, and subsequently for Conservative central office and for Johnson, and to Charlotte Owen, one of the ex-prime minister’s former assistants who is understood to be in her late 20s”. Ross Kempsell? Who he?

Kempsell became initially infamous after covertly recording a conversation between Paul Mason and a Spanish MP in a Liverpool eatery at the time of the 2016 Labour Party Conference. He subsequently went to work as assistant sandwich monitor, er, sorry, “Senior Reporter” for the perpetually thirsty Paul Staines at the Guido Fawkes blog. Real peerage material.

But then, Bozo has already ennobled the likes of Evgeny Lebedev, son of a “former” KGB officer, despite the reservations of the security agencies, and Zac Goldsmith, whose campaign to succeed Bozo as Mayor of London was tainted by the racism aimed at eventual winner Sadiq Khan.

Over at the HuffPost, readers are told that “It also emerged last year that Johnson has nominated four of his closest allies for peerages in his resignation honours … The former prime minister wants to ennoble Nadine Dorries, Alister Jack, Alok Sharma and Nigel Adams”. Is that the same Nigel Adams who used to be a regular at Young Britons’ Foundation gatherings?

Well, we’ve already seen the ennoblement of Claire Fox, a bona fide terrorist sympathiser and a part of Living Marxism, famous mostly for genocide denial. All that the alleged K for Stanley Johnson does is underscore the corruption that Bozo has brought into politics, and at which all too few commentators out there on the right have raised a finger, never mind condemned it.

Bozo will get away with it, too. Because no-one who matters will stop him.

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