Wolves at the Door?

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I suspect that more than a few of us will quietly be enjoying schadenfreude at the PM's current pickle: his 'creature' has turned, obviously not happy at his treatment at the hands of the Johnson government. The old saying 'Be careful whom you upset on the way to the top...' springs to mind. Cummings may not be my favourite person of all time, but I like Johnson and has ilk still less; but his agency would seem to have facilitated both of the Johnson projects: Brexit and a landslide election - slighting him would seem to have been yet another tactical error on the PM's part. Anyone who has watched Wolf Hall (I've still to read the books myself) will know how critical friendships and alliances are to those close to the seat of power, and that the careful stewardship of those relationships is of vital importance to the central players: although these days rolling heads are metaphorical rather than physical - some might cry shame!

Will Johnson be undone by his disaffected mentor's 'accidental' spin? I think not, based on events thus far. If Tony Blair was Teflon, Johnson appears to wear his silver spoon as an invisibility cloak: the only way to unseat this monstrosity is likely to be similar to the eventual undoing of Al Capone; some legal nicety that simply cannot be ignored by legal process or subverted by the clever-dickery of over-paid teams of QC's in the service of perverting the spirit rather than the letter of the law on behalf of those with the deepest pockets. Maybe the flat's refurb scandal might do it, but I somehow doubt it: this needs the subtlety of the mundane - a Civil Servant's realm methinks - something so unremarkable that it would normally pass unnoticed, like the simple mail-fraud in the denouement to the movie "The Firm". Let's all keep a close watching brief on the news, eh?

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