How
did it get to the point where a Sinn Fein-loving, monarchy-baiting Leftie could
lead the Opposition? Conservatives can't believe their luck
By
Boris Johnson
9:11PM
BST 16 Aug 2015
It
begins with a look of slow and wondering amazement – as if he hardly dares
believe his luck; and then the certainty builds, millisecond by millisecond.
Then the eyebrows go up even higher, and the mouth gapes and the eyes pop and
the epiglottis vibrates as he lets out a long, whooping yell of sheer
incredulous ecstasy.
That
is how police chief Brody reacts in the last reel of Jaws when, by some fluke,
he manages to shoot a bullet right into the oxygen tank in the mouth of the
shark, and the ravening fish improbably explodes. That is frankly how we in the
Tory party feel as we watch what is happening in the Labour movement today.
If
these polls are right (and that is a pretty big if these days) then we are at
that preliminary stage in Roy Scheider’s masterful portrait of the joyful
police chief. We aren’t yet whooping, but our eyebrows are twitching north in
incredulity. We are filled with disbelief that this can really be taking place,
a distrust of the evidence of our senses.
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