In the Name of God, Go!

Overheard while watching TV:

Hay: "Is Johnny Cash dead?

Chairman: "Yes, he died years ago. His last record was his last one."

On the basis of a report, the private advisor to the PM on the Ministerial Code, Sir Alex Allan, determines Priti Patel was guilty of breaching the code; Boris Johnson determines she wasn't; Sir Alex resigns in protest. Priti Patel maintains she was not aware of the accusations of bullying; former Permanent Secretary at the Home Office, Sir Philip Rutnam, contradicts this and maintains he spoke to Patel several times about moderating her behaviour. Boris Johnson is accused of applying pressure to Sir Alex Allan to water down the report; Johnson refuses to publish the report. No minister who has been found guilty of breaking the Ministerial Code has, until now, managed to remain in position. John Bercow too was subject to allegations of bullying, but there's no report with evidence; Bercow was denied a place in the Lords by Boris Johnson. 

There are several administrations the following quote could be directed toward at this moment, not least that of Boris Johnson. 

"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. 

"Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes? 

"Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? 

"Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves gone! 

"So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!” 

 Oliver Cromwell – April 20, 1653