The main hall was barely half-full when Matt Hancock arrived on stage to give his conference speech and even emptier by the time he had finished. “The single most important thing that is really important is that we show we love the NHS,” he said. The semiotics of surrender and hierarchy of betrayal in the Tory party really, really matter. At the very mention of the Guardian or the BBC, several of the more elderly members had to be stretchered out. Better to have a prime minister who grabbed pussies, than a pussy for a prime minister.

Source: The Guardian September 30, 2019 18:56 UTC