The Prophylactic and the Pipsqueak Pob
- Admin
- Sep 18, 2019
- 2 min read
On last night’s BBC Newsnight, the newspaper review told us that the, not at all self-centred, Sarah Vine, the wife of Michael Gove has written, in her Daily Mail column (who buys this stuff?!) about David Cameron’s new book and the breaking of the friendship between him and her husband.
The presenter made the observation that Vain Vine attributed the break up to the politics of the Brexit debacle and not to anything personal.
This is interesting because, by doing this, the question of, especially Gove’s character does not arise.
Also on the BBC has been a series entitled ‘The Rise of the Nazis’, in which the motives and characters of some of the well known people and some less well known – to the writer, anyway - involved at the time.
For some reason, similarities in behaviour, notably that of Gove, were noticed by the writer.
I am not suggesting that Messrs. Gove and Cameron are Nazis, for one thing they don’t have uniformed private armies or secret police forces overtly supporting them by going around beating up left wingers. Of course, they don’t really need them when they have Dominic Cummings, Rupert Murdoch, the Barclay brothers and assorted place people in the BBC and other media outlets. These amoral people do all the beating up that’s needed in our excuse for a democratic process.
However notable characteristics of the sinister folk around Herr Hitler, not to mention the man himself, were their single-minded ruthlessness and duplicity. (In the latest and last episode, we saw how Hitler was persuaded by Himmler and Göering to have his long standing supporter - and real friend - Ernst Röhm arrested and then murdered.)
It is sociopathic characteristics resembling these that Mrs Gove wouldn’t want to draw attention and no wonder!
Gove’s hand of characteristics as dealt by his genes and upbringing holds many Trump cards in the shape of a lack of shame, an easy ability to lie, a charming manner, manipulative behaviour and, as we now see, an inability to maintain friendships.
Of course, it takes one to know one and we can see how Johnson, Gove’s boss and former victim of his traitorous ruthlessness, can match these cards and probably a few more.
On a final gratuitous note, here is an approximation of a Stewart Lee joke that the writer wishes he had come up with:
‘On the news it says that David Cameron put his penis into a pig’s mouth but his friend, Michael Gove did something more disgusting and put his penis into a Daily Mail columnist’
The writer is also indebted to Tom Watson, pretend deputy leader of the Labour Party for the term ‘pipsqueak’.
Bob, your uncle.
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