'Lordly' Moylan has a curious way of helping his old master, Mr Johnson...
Lordly's long held dream of being 'looked after' by the buffoon seems about to be dashed.
A glistening prize of some ambassadorial role in a Far Eastern country was something Lordly yearned for.
Lordly? Boris is in a real old jam and your interventions make matters worse.
Zip it up, man!
and 'im an Irish Catholic!
ReplyDeleteMoylan depends on Boris for preferment. He has not cultivated possible successors to Boris because it was a reasonable assumption that if Boris got the top job he would be there long enough to take care of the Irishman. But circumstance is circumstance. Danny may find himself up a creek.
ReplyDeleteBut the creeper never misses a trick. Boris's troubles are an opportunity for Danny to purr "Don't forget, I am your mate". Ambassador to Washington has happened for less.
18 months ago the British High Commission in Bangkok would have been an attractive posting, close to the fleshpots of Patpong.
DeleteBut the Lords has given our boy (The Lord Moylan) loftier ideas. Nothing less than Paris or Washington fits with the new self image.
Some years ago, was there not a little local difficulty in South Africa?
ReplyDeleteThis was, of course, an unfortunate episode constructed by the then fascist S. African government intelligence agency BOSS
DeleteYouthful indiscretions not a bar to Office in the Johnson administration.
DeleteGardening boys in third world countries is the great Foreign Office tradition
DeleteLord Moylan loves dressing up in his robes. But he has made no significant impact in the House so far.
ReplyDeleteLord Moylan is a consummate politician and knows when and how to get noticed. "All of us lie" is a brilliant tweet to get noticed. Even the old hag, the Dame, noticed
ReplyDeleteFor a 'consummate politician'Lordly seems to have been unnoticed by every constituency he ever applied to
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