A right old putsch

Subject: A right old putsch 

So last night the drama and the vitriol, as members of the Conservative party vented their spleen on each other on that most fundamental question for the Tory Party, whether  to remain in the European Union or to reform, as they see it, to a sovereign nation free to carry out its business without EU interference.
Things had come to a head with the election by party members of Boris Johnson to be our  Prime Minister. Johnson that unlikely choice with his apparent lack of what might be called Prime Ministerial gravitas, an apparent lack of being able to hold a cohesive view or reason his brief without peppering it with inappropriate and inane frivolity.
There was nothing frivolous in last nights exchanges as the party MPs tore lumps out of each other with thinly veiled contempt.  These are people who had in some cases shared a lifetime together in the confine of the Palace of Westminster, who daily rubbed shoulders debating the matters of the day but tonight, their persona revealed that on this matter of EU membership they belonged to a different gang and would not have been averse to sticking the knife, real or imaginary, in to their colleagues . 
Party grandees, household names clung together for support as they said they could not in conscience support Boris in his scheme to crash the country out of the Union without some sort of economic deal.
Ken Clark, (the father of the house), Nicholas  Soames (Winston Churchill's grandson). The ex Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, Philip Hammond the ex Chancellor of the Exchequer, Greg Clark, Rory Stewart and David Gauke all ministers in Mrs Mays government. All respected household names, each week they spoke to their brief at the Dispatch Box and irrespective of whether you agreed with their political persuasion you respected their right to do do. These were not backbencher they were the elite of the parties first eleven, in football parlance who were being threatened by this upstart clown, Johnson and his shadowy backroom boy Dominic Cummings (the unelected power behind the throne) with having the whip withdrawn and in effect kicked out of parliamentary life. People with 40/50 years of service who had rebelled on a matter of conscience were threatened with their cards.

The sight of the louche Jacob Rees-Mogg, newly promoted to Leader of the House reclining virtually horizontally on the front bench said it all.  A disdain for parliament and his fellow parliamentarians, he is one one of the architects of the group of Tory MPs, the ERC (European Research Group) who made Mrs Mays position in the job, hell, is an internal clique who's life's work has been to get us out of Europe, irrespective of the consequences. From a handful to roughly 70 hardcore members, out of, plus 300 sitting conservative MPs, they have temporally,  inherited the Earth by infiltrating  their party with the one aim, to leave Europe, coincided with the election of Boris, who to my mind borrowed the opportunity in his megalomanic thirst for power and the pop job.
If Boris carries out his threatened putsch against the rebels it's comparable to  Pep Guardiola firing his first eleven and fielding his second eleven in the European Cup. 
The political reverberations will be felt for a long time as the threat of a 'dictator' willing to use his dictatorial powers within the construct of a democratic institution, is felt, reflected on and eventually repudiated by the nation