The Politics of Self Delusion

Isn't it about time that the friends, relatives and colleagues of Liz Truss staged an intervention for the former Prime Minister?  She's clearly not right, wandering around, giving talks to empty rooms and interviews to media outlets that nobody listens to, as if she was still someone of significance, filling these things with  increasingly bizarre claims and pronouncements.  The latest being that there's an 'underground transgender mafia' plotting against her and which brought down her premiership.  Presumably this is separate from that Marxist cabal including the Bank of England and the stock market she previously identified as the cause of her downfall.  Or maybe they are linked - perhaps, somewhere, there's a Venn diagram showing the intersection of the groups conspiring against Truss, which will reveal their leadership as Marxist transgender economist formerly called Bernard, but now identifying as 'Sandra', a lady truck driver from Dartford.  She has also been claiming that if she had still been PM, then the Tories would have won the last election - this, despite the fact that her forty eight hours, or whatever it was, in Number Ten had crashed the economy and driven both her and her party's popularity ratings to somewhere below those enjoyed by Jack the Ripper at the height of his Whitechapel murder spree. Not to mention that at said election, even her constituents decided that they couldn't stand her any more and voted her out as their MP.  What next?  Can we expect to see her on random street corners, possibly dressed as a chicken in a desperate attempt to attract attention, assailing random passers by with her increasingly unhinged claims?  If she was anyone other than a former Tory Prime Minister (and there are quite a few of those about these days), she'd have been sectioned months ago.  So really, somebody needs to do something - now.

But Truss isn't the only former failed Prime Minister currently plaguing the public with wild and nonsensical claims.  Right now Boris Johnson's completely made up memoirs are being serialised in the Daily Mail.  Amongst his tall tales is the story of how, during the Covid lockdown, he supposedly planned to send the SAS round to his local Superdrug pharmacy to kick down the door and seize those thousand boxes of viagra they'd refused to dispense to him on the grounds that it was a non-essential drug.  Or was it that he was going to send them to break into a warehouse in the Netherlands (a NATO ally) and steal Covid vaccines?  No, it had to be the former, as the latter is too ridiculous, even by Johnson's low standards, to be true.  If he had sent the SAS to raid the Netherlands then it would probably have been to steal sex aids, lubricants and condoms and to kidnap some prostitutes in order to keep those illegal lockdown parties at Number Ten well stocked.  Then there's his ravings about how President Macron of France was out to 'punish' him for Brexit, even going to the lengths of sneaking into the UK, donning a black balaclava and leaping out at Johnson as he walked through a dimly lit alley, swinging a baseball bat at his knees.  Obviously, the then Prime Minister wasn't skulking around a back alley in dead of night with the aim of forcing a rear entry into the home of a secret lover and his attacker wasn't her enraged husband.  ('It wasn't so much her infidelity, but rather her lack of taste and self-respect that pushed me over the edge', the husband most definitely didn't say in his own defence).  I think that I can speak for the entire nation that I can say that I look forward to more of Johnson's completely true revelations, such as the time that he saved Number Ten from a terror attack when he threw himself on top of a naked female suicide bomber on the Cabinet Room table, the muffled blast blowing his clothes off and leaving him, naked, grappling with her when the rest of the Cabinet walked in for a meeting...