the greatest
show in town is over.
the signs
and banners have been taken down.
wenlocks and
mandevilles have been removed.
the parade
has been and gone.
the talk is
all about legacy.
the winners
are proud of their gold medals. for the moment the spotlight is theirs. in a
few weeks they will be forgotten.
the two
people who come out of this with big shit eating grins on their faces are seb
coe and boris johnson. coe wants to become the head of the international
olympic committee. while he denies it boris wants to become the leader of the
conservative party and by dint of that become the prime minister.
boris as
prime minister: scary.
grace dent
in the independent says this of him:
“he’s a politician for people who don’t like or understand politics or
policies”
david
cameron hoped to get a political bounce from the olympics. what he got was
splashback from the omnishambles (a clusterfuck that keeps on giving)
culminating in the roars of disapproval that george osborne received as he
presented medals at the paralympics.
it must have
been galling to him that as the olympics went on steamrollering cynicism in
front of it with both the success of the british athletes and the sheer elan of
the games themselves that all the glory fell on boris.
boris got
the bounce and then some.
a couple of
polls now put boris as being the politician of the moment – the man who could
save the conservative party and get them elected into power at the next
election. of course for that to happen
it means cameron has to go.
in an act of
payback for the leveson inquiry several of the newspapers have gotten behind
this story.
it’ll make
for an interesting conservative conference.
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