Urban, Turban, Schmurban...

Johnson still doesn't get it, does he? No amount of swanning around wearing turbans in India can detract from the growing political storm here in the UK surrounding his serial misdemeanours and untruths. I'm not sure exactly what his currently-planned exit strategy might be: he could of course have left a monumental stitch-up in place, involving his Reichspolitzei [read The Met] and the dark cabal that is his Cabinet [Doctor Caligari, anyone?].

But I very much doubt it - chancer that he is, he's winging it yet again, hoping that the lickspittles will yet come to his rescue once more - except that yesterday, the worm(s) finally turned while he was away from the fray, self-confident in his omnipotence. Oops. And I hadn't realized until this morning that the wrecking amendment he had tabled had a three-line whip, only to find that there weren't enough of his party playing ball to shove it through the House, resulting in a remote-control U-turn from the subcontinent.

The fact that the free vote to pass the affair to committee for investigation was completely unopposed tells the story: his time in office grows shorter by the second, and his claims of retaining office deep into the year are either the hollow boasts of an out of control ego, or that he that has engineered some devious get-out-of-jail tactic, which would bode extremely badly for our democracy. Remember, deep shit happens when democratic process falters...