Peter Bone’s Meteoric Rise and Speedy Fall
Peter Bone had been a backbencher 17 years, priding himself in being as disloyal to the Tory whips as attainable. Guido remembers Michael Cockerell’s Inside The Commons documentary, through which he boasted after the 2014 reshuffle:
“I see my position in Parliament: I’m not right here as representing the federal government, I’m right here to scrutinise the federal government and it doesn’t matter who’s in energy. The brand new Chief Whip has been in energy for about two hours and I’ve already rebelled towards him.”
Not solely was Bone’s appointment as deputy Chief of the Home sensible as a result of he’s an incredible watch within the Commons, Boris by no means even had a deputy Commons chief at any level throughout his premiership. The appointment was simply pure banter…
So from a lowly backbencher to a minister, now comes the inevitable fall in stature. As we speak on the order paper, Peter Bone’s first public act within the position couldn’t have gone down worse on social media:
A number of Tory Members have now stated they’ll vote for any management candidate that abolishes the jumped-up, left-wing whinge-a-thon of a youth ‘parliament’, which thus far has accomplished nothing besides give Jeremy Corbyn a standing ovation and debase the inexperienced benches. Oh how the mighty fall, Peter…
