Sheepdog

I'm in two minds about Ian Blair resigning; on the one hand, I think he should have resigned long since, but on the other hand, I dislike Boris Johnson's role in all this. In all probability, what I really dislike about this is the fact that it shows just how much the Tories are in ascendancy atm; you couldn't imagine them getting away with this at any point in the past eight years.

What it does illustrate, however, is that Boris isn't quite the buffoon he allows himself to be portrayed as; this is him flexing his political muscle and doing what some argue the Home Secretary should have done a couple of years ago.

Whenever I see him, I always think of a rather shambling Old English Sheepdog - and then he goes and does something like scrap the plans for a higher congestion charge on Chelsea Tractors, because Hey Presto! everyone can just get on their bike or a bus to help the environment instead, and this way he won't offend any of his posh pals in Kensington - and then I realise what an utter cnut he really is. A cnut in sheep(dog)'s clothing perhaps?