Boris Johnson compares Nicola Sturgeon to a weevil, a temperance campaigner and King Herod
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, on the campaign trail last week
Boris Johnson has gone to town on Nicola Sturgeon in his Telegraph column today, an insight into just how damaging the Conservatives see the SNP connection could be to Labour.
They are attacking hard. And when I say hard, I mean hard.
Boris Johnson compares the SNP leader to a fox given the run of a henhouse, a jewel thief with the keys to the Tower of London and, a more tasteless comparison, King Herod “in charge of a baby farm”.
According to Boris she is also a temperance campaigner running a brewery and a voracious weevil. Ouch. He writes:
“You wouldn’t get Herod to run a baby farm, would you? It would not normally occur to you to interview a convicted jewel thief for the post of custodian of the Tower of London.
You would not dream of asking a fox to look after the henhouse or a temperance campaigner to run a brewery or Attila the Hun to work as a doorkeeper for the Roman senate – and no one in their right mind would enter into a contract with a bunch of voracious weevils to protect the lovely old timbers in the tower of the local church. Would they?
Any such course of action would be totally nuts. So can someone tell me why in the name of all that is holy there are some apparently rational people who are even contemplating the elevation of the Scottish Nationalist Party to a position of effective dominance in the government of the United Kingdom – an entity that they are sworn to destroy?”