Former prime minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, was rumoured to be feeling exceptionally hard done by today after reviewing a tape of newly independent MP, Anna Soubry’s, Newsnight interview to celebrate her freedom from tyranny.
”She’s come right out with a hatchet and buried it in the scarecrow’s eyes,” Mr Brown allegedly told us, “I admire that. But this isn’t really fair.”
What? The none too subtle attack on May? We admired the coolly disposed rage of Soubry as she began her slow demolition of her former terminator.
”The demolition job is fine. I’m all for it. I can’t stand Theresa May. She’s just some kind of bigoted woman.”
Well, what’s the problem?
”I say it, in a car, in private, to my driver and I lose a bloody election to David ‘trotters’ Cameron. Soubry says essentially the same thing and she’s an instant bloody hero! Where’s the justice!”
It’s probably one of context.
”How so?”
You were prime minister at the time. You were power. You were talking about an elderly person unable to comprehend the changes in her society. So she was in a sense vulnerable.
”You’re not too bloody vulnerable when you’ve the majority of the media, right wing owned and race dog whistling, on your side! We soon saw who held the power. And was I wrong? Well?”
Arguably no, given that a few years after you forgot to un-mike we got the, so far, successful crime of Brexit perpetrated largely thanks to some people being a kind of bigoted. And some very much so. In fact a large part of the campaign was just racism. So I guess not.
”You’ve proven my point then! I know what they can criticise Soubry for what she just said and did though.”
What’s that?
”Stating the bleeding obvious!”