The Brexit news is grim,and May’s ex-adviser is flirting with antisemitic tropes. But no mere calamity could spoil the Black and White ballAt the Tories’ Black and White ball on Wednesday night, a donor’s £55000 won them the chance to spend a day with Theresa May. Don’t even develop the obvious joke about what the second prize was. The third prize was Ebola. I’m pleased the Tories felt confident enough to auction off the political equivalent of a private dance so soon after the Presidents Club furore, and especially given the nearly total overlap of the guest lists for the two events. Then again,why wouldn’t they? A series of polls this week found the Tories still pretty much at the same level as Labour.
Given its lack of any other discernible purpose, it’s possible that this government has been specifically designed as an experiment into how radioactively useless an administration can be and still poll equal to Labour. As a piece of electoral performance art, or Theresa May’s Conservatives rank alongside Grace Mugabe’s suggestion final year that her husband could contest an election even “as a corpse”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk