The court of King Boris
Boris has achieved his boyhood ambition. He wanted to be king of the world; he’s actually king of Downing Street
Today the hero-villain is called Dom Cummings, not Tom Cromwell. Otherwise little changes. Dom, like Tom, did the impossible and freed England from the bonds of (the Treaty of) Rome. They said it couldn’t be done.
But Dom, like Tom, trampled over parliament, the judges, the church and more or less everybody else, and won the prize. In return Dom, like Tom, wanted a free hand to carry out A Revolution in Government and impose order on chaos. But the boss demurred, declaring, “Chaos means that everyone has to look to me to see who’s in charge.” Which was curtains for Dom and the chopper for Tom.
That’s not the only echo of
