Charlatans

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Well, t'would seem that a lot of chickens are coming home to roost at last: and before anyone accuses me of repeated ad hominem attacks on our glorious leader, I rather think he succeeded long ago in assassinating his own character and deflating his own arguments by his serial dissembling and his general policy of putting obvious untruths before Parliament and public alike. His non-apology apology this lunchtime in PMQ's was calculated I think to wrong-foot the opposition, but he immediately blew his cover by not resigning immediately and then returning to his usual tack of doubling-down on the waiting-for-the-result-of-the-official-enquiry line, choosing yet again to avoid answering a single direct question. Even some carefully chosen procedurally-bland questions from his side of the House couldn't quell the overall sense of seething anger on both sides of the dispatch box at his performance. This ain't going away, Doris...

On a seedier note, it seems that that other great believer in mendacity over truth, Prince Andrew, is going to have to face the music over his alleged *cough* part in the Epstein scandal. Another one who chose to put his head above the parapet, also mistakenly believing his position in society would confer on him an invisibility cloak of innocence, the Prince has lost his bid to stop the civil case against him in the States. I read in the papers that he's flogging off his £18m+ ski chalet in Verbier to help fund his legals - I suspect he'll need a lot more than the residue of that sale after paying off the mortgage (I kid you not, for those who mistakenly believe that the rich actually pay for stuff outright) and repayment of a six-odd million quid debt he owed. As with Doris Pooh, he continues to double-down on his denials of complicity, in the face of the damning prima facie evidence extant. He's toast. 

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