Lord Adams of Selby? How does that sound?
The great lickspittle will get a permanent seat in the upper chamber and the prospect of £323 per day attendance allowance, plus travel expenses and subsidised restaurant facilities until he pops his clogs. He's 55 by the way so it could be an expensive bit of grift.
He was one of the tiny band of acolytes in Downing Street as Johnson resigned last Thursday, standing next to Carrie and touching her hand to comfort the PM's wife, strangely smiling at the prospect of losing her expensive gold wallpaper paid for by Lord Brownlow - unless of course the caretaker's son from Goole has offered to carefully scrape it off for her? Who knows what his limits are?
The peerage is a rather odd reward for persuading Johnson to employ Chris Pincher, the disgraced deputy chief whip and a drinking partner of Adams, so we are told. He will apparently go to the Lords alongside Nadine Dorries, Allegra Stratton, who resigned as Johnson’s spokeswoman over partygate, Michael Hintze, a billionaire Tory donor, and Paul Dacre, the poisonous and foul-mouthed former editor of the Daily Mail. What a bunch.
Adams has been loyal to Johnson for years, helping to manage his campaigns to become PM in both 2016 and 2019 and in return was given a succession of silly jobs in government and the whips office, eventually sitting in cabinet as minister without portfolio. Note he was never wheeled out to defend Johnson after any of his frequent and regular succession of gaffes, rule breaking or policy U turns. You have to wonder why that is. I assume he wasn't thought bright enough or he didn't come across well on TV - not a figure with any empathy.
In the Sunday Times, Adams is portrayed as being among those close to Johnson in the No 10 bunker with Guto Harri, Johnson’s director of communications, and other close aides. Most are said to have made it clear that they would stand with Johnson if he wanted to fight, but "few privately thought it a good idea." But not all:
"Johnson was being egged on by Nigel Adams, a cabinet office minister, and Andrew Griffith, the policy director, who is wildly unpopular with fellow MPs."
Stupid to the last, the man who has spent six years inflicting on us not only the worst PM in British history - and by a wide margin - but surely one of the worst psychopaths ever to enter politics in this country, was actually urging him to cling on!!!
This weekend we also learned another woman has come forward to accuse the PM of abusing his position as Mayor of London to have an affair with her:
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson lobbied for a job for a young woman who claims he abused his power to have a sexual relationship with her https://t.co/z2FC1Hz3H3
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) July 9, 2022
One insider, in response to Adams and Griffith urging the awful man to tough it out said, “The most toxic members of the cabal had blinkers on.” Remember that - Adams is described as one of the most toxic members of a toxic cabal surrounding probably the most toxic Tory leader of all time!
There have been a few obituaries published over the last few days, none of them complimentary. The Guardian have a couple of good ones, Jonathan Freedland says: Everything tainted by Johnson’s lies needs to be undone. That includes his Brexit and the Irish writer Fintan O'Toole is on terrific form as usual when he writes: Boris Johnson has vandalised the political architecture of Britain, Ireland and Europe.
The historian Anthony Seldon has the best, again in the ST with this headline: Boris Johnson taught us one valuable lesson: how not to be prime minister. The sub-title is: "Most holders of the highest office are forced out by scandal, coup or policy failure. The 55th PM was brought down by an unprecedented cocktail of all three.
Johnson, says Seldon, "broke almost every rule about how to be effective: appoint the best people and stick with them; identify your core domestic agenda and hold relentlessly to it; don’t be distracted by the ephemeral or chase tomorrow’s headlines; and ensure that your personal conduct is beyond reproach."
He was manifestly unsuitable, Adams knew it all along but clung to Johnson's coat tails in order to further his own career and damn the rest of us and the United Kingdom itself.
