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We Can All Learn from How John Major Told Boris Johnson to F*ck the F*ck Off
John Major is one of those intriguing people who has managed to use a grey non-descript façade to hide a carnival of chaotic cognitive combat, mountains of mischief and outrageously extreme hedonism (well, Edwina Currie).
Who knows what warped wonders, weapons of political carnage and debauched memories are lurking behind that pale, retired accountant-looking poker face?
All the clues were there decades ago but such is the ease of media manipulation that this technicolour honey-badger in drab sheep’s clothing managed to pull the wool over millions of eyes. This was a boy who ran away from the circus to work in insurance and then banking before becoming Tory leader. He then called them all (well, some rabid Eurosceptics) a bunch of “bastards.”
Major’s father led an extraordinary life and despite John running from the nomadic performer lifestyle (though arguably MPs are nomadic circus performers, albeit shit ones) he, luckily, could not run away from all the qualities that enabled his dad to do what he did.
Tom Major-Ball cut his teeth as a trapeze artist in travelling circuses in the USA and claimed to have subsequently performed at every theatre in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, after returning to the UK, expanding his repertoire…
