On the bright side…

Positively the only good thing about recent political developments in the UK is that they're going to give Marina Hyde tons of new material:

[…] Arguably this morning’s most amusing development was Helen Grant resigning as Tory vice-chair to openly support Dominic Raab. Is this the same Dominic Raab who resigned in protest at a Brexit deal he himself negotiated as Brexit secretary, and who is bizarrely being talked up as a strong candidate? Righto. It was Swift (Jonathan) who warned: "It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom." And it was Swift (Taylor) who said: "Darling I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream." I don’t want to come over all Mystic Meg, but I am seeing a nightmarish news story in Dominic Raab’s future that will curtail any bid in fairly short order. […]

Any non-UK readers wondering who Dominic Raab is should comfort themselves with the thought that three years ago none of us on this side of the Atlantic knew either, and three years from now he'll be lucky to be the punchline in a "Name the Brexit Secretary who succeeded David Davis in the role?" quiz question. [note]The joke being the notion that anybody made a "success" of that particular job. Not a particularly good joke, I'll grant you, but I don't think anyone is going to find much about the current timeline funny once Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has finished having a go at being Prime Minister and retired to spend more time writing fiction for the Daily Telegraph.[/note]