The Tory Party Has Gone Missing

Some readers may have heard of the mass hallucinations that took place at the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit in 1951.   As John Grant Fuller describes it in The Day of Saint Anthony’s Fire, on 15 August that year the entire village of 250 inhabitants woke up and began seeing visions.  One man sat down  to eat a medieval banquet that did not exist.  Another chewed his way through a leather strap that was holding him down, jumped out the window, and continued running even after breaking both his legs.  Another was chased by a tiger, while yet another was followed by snakes.

By the end of this episode, five people had died and others were seriously ill.   Most theories attribute this outbreak to a surfeit of ergot – a component of LSD – in the wheat harvest, which found its way into the local bread.  Another school of thought argues that the villagers actually took LSD as a result of a CIA experiment that went wrong.

I mention this, in view of what is happening to the Conservative Party.   Police are advising anyone who encounters the Tory Party to stay away from it for their own safety.   Because if its members are not wall-slamming female climate change protesters, they can be found wandering the streets of Twitter like drunken town criers proclaiming the imminent arrival of the Messiah, here:

.@BorisJohnson is smashing it again in that latest round of voting. He is the only candidate with momentum and the only candidate bringing our MPs together from every side and part of the country.

Boris can deliver Brexit, unite the party and unite the country @BackBoris