Coup fizzles: back to abuse, including anti-semitism

Parliament 'seizing control' did not happen after all, although Remainers have threatened further attempts or no-confidence motions. Arch plotter Sir O Letwin (who co-sponsored the motion with J Corbyn!)  is quoted in the Grundia today:

A senior Tory MP behind cross-party efforts to block a no-deal Brexit has said parliament has now run out of options for preventing the UK from crashing out of the EU after the defeat of Labour’s motion....The interviewer Nick Robinson pointed out that MPs could not block a no-deal exit happening by default if no legislation was put before parliament....Letwin said: “That’s an extremely good summary of the situation, alas.” He added: “If the government doesn’t bring something before parliament, parliament won’t have a chance to take a view on that.”...He played down the prospect of Tory MPs voting down their own government to prevent no deal.

So back to abuse, led by P Toynbee who has obviously had a laspe. Straight in with the first paragraph:

this man, unfit for every office he has held, can be about to sweep into Downing Street, his performance today [at the election hustings] is the answer. His snake oil of choice is optimism, so miserably lacking in politics now, radiating out of him like sunshine. All fake, all sun-ray lamp that turns off in private, but it outshines his rivals and dazzles anyone willing to ignore everything we know about his rotten-to-the-core character....A man without qualities, devoid of public spirit or regard for anyone but himself, consumed by lifelong ambition, needy for acclaim and irritable when it’s denied, willing to swing dangerously in any direction to be loved, a man to shame the country as its figurehead....Barely a word he spoke was true, trustworthy or even faintly plausible, yet he brandishes his charlatanry with bravado....Unsurprisingly, he did not mention his two disastrous years in the Foreign Office...his blundering laziness helped to keep a distraught mother stricken in an Iranian jail

Instead, Johnson kept returning to his mayor of London years, packed with factoids and untruths. [and Toynbee rightly debunks his claims to have been a great success]...he will be a nation-shamingly bad prime minister, but these Tories think that’s a price worth paying for their seats. The irony is their gross self-interest may wipe out their party.

The great destroyer now appears before us as the great nation healer – though pollsters find him the most divisive of them all. Policy-free, this launch was a touchy feely Borisorama, where all manner of things will be … well, just take it on trust.

Dear me! But the most shameful bit of Boris-bashing appears in the cartoon in the Times today. The Times cartoons are always pretty poor, with obvious points made via nasty caricatures, but this is egregious:

Not the elders of Zion but equally nasty and conspiratorial mad mullahs from Iran, working their evil behind the scenes with Boris as their puppet.