Double Bind

So, the minority DUP is holding Northern Ireland to ransom by not electing a Speaker to Stormont and Boris is colluding with them by threatening to invoke Article 16, unless the EU agrees to his conditions, which are a negation of the Northern Ireland Protocol, which Lord Frost designed and Boris heralded with a big fanfare as an oven-ready deal.

Naturally, as is his usual modus operandi, Boris blames another party for his own mistakes.

This would then, by necessity, place the border within Ireland, negating the Good Friday Agreement. Now, if he does trash the NIP, then the logical consequence is that Sinn Fein, as the majority party, will execute its mandate to also refuse to elect a Speaker, still leaving NI without a local government, not that I think this will bother Johnson, so long as he satisfies a minority Ulster party, the name of which is incorporated into the full name of the Conservative and Unionist Party.

If only the Tories had listened to Theresa May none of this would have happened. The ERG, however, despite stating that May's Backstop was not needed because there were mythical technological solutions to border checks around the corner, conspired to vote against it, leading to the fall of May. However, if such a mythical solution was indeed around the corner, there was no logical problem with retaining the Backstop which, by their own admission, would never be invoked anyway.

Meanwhile the NI economy is booming. Boris can't allow that.

Once more, policy bereft of thought about the consequences has trapped Boris. Even the Queen's Speech had nothing new in it - it was a rehash of last year's slogans, none of which have yet been delivered due to the Tories having to deal with the consequences.

I'm not surprised Queen Elizabeth didn't want to read out the speech Boris had crafted for her and made the excuse she couldn't move, despite being seen several days later walking around a horse show. I think it was a pointed protest in the only way she could make it. Even her deputy, Charles, made the speech in the most deadpan of voices.

If you're a Conservative voter, this is what comes of voting into power a known liar and charlatan with the morals of an alley cat. Expect a few more people or groups to be thrown under his Big Red Bus.