Minister gives a good impression of someone back on cocaine during statement on no-deal preparations
It’s been about 25 years since Michael Gove last took drugs. Give or take. But during his Commons statement on no-deal preparations, the de facto deputy prime minister gave a good impression of someone back on cocaine. Maybe he was just enjoying euphoric recall, but this was Gove at his most insufferable. Which is saying something. Twitchy, arrogant and dismissive. Convinced of his own divinity. And deadly boring with it.
Gove has often had something of a charmed life in parliament. Everyone has always known he has an uneasy relationship with the truth – no one who has employed Dominic Cummings as a special adviser can ever have been said to be on the side of the angels – but he has always enjoyed the benefit of the doubt because of his ability to sound unfailingly polite when he is in fact being point blank rude. Now though, that facade has dropped. His soul has been sold several times over and all that is left is bluster and bullshit.
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