Boris Fixing it for Himself?

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I've used the analogy of the Emperor's New Clothes before in trying to get a grip on the recent phenomenon of the apparent and absolute imperviousness of the holders of ultimate power from even the least logical scrutiny or account for their behaviours. I've also recently picked up the Savile biography 'In Plain Sight - The Life & Lies of Jimmy Savile', the subject of which committed repeated gross sexual offences against underage and vulnerable people for decades, known to his contemporaries, colleagues and sundry others in the entertainment business, for decades: doing so, without comment or action from those in observance, aside from mumblings: 'it's Savile'.

Whilst I would not bracket the offences committed by our current PM and his pack of halfwits with the heinous crimes committed by Savile, there is a parallel here, in that the principal actors in both scenarios have continued to err and lie barefacedly about their so-doing in the full awareness of those looking on. Marina Hyde in The Guardian recently likened Johnson to a cult leader with acolytes who only see the myth built up around that figure and will find any old way to explain away their leader's outrageous and damaging behaviour: even to their own cost.

Maybe some of us are more - in my case, definitely much, much less - susceptible to this kind of mass hypnosis/denial-of-the-truth/rewriting-of-history bollocks. The reasons for this frankly illogical mode of thinking are very much a question for psychologists to pick the bones out of. But in the meantime, the Emperor is still butt-stark-naked and most of us haven't yet woken up to that most basic of facts (to paraphrase some stupid Trump apologist speaking some time before his dethronement, there are probably too many 'alternative' facts) God help us - let's hope the scales fall from the eyes of the deluded before it's gone so far that there is no going back...

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