Cunning Diversionary Tactic

In what must be a cunning diversionary ploy, Boris Johnson MP (Henley, I think ?) has distracted people from the New Labour spectacle by comparing it to the people of Papua New Guinea's alleged (and I'd like to stress that word) past involvement in cannibalism etc. The High Commissioner duly forced an apology, tho' since she considers him "a senior MP" (how senior, exactly ?) and seems to have accepted his curious remarks about "blameless bourgeois domesticity," it may be that her offence was rather at her nation being compared to the Conservative Party.

One theory is that Boris is doing this to relieve the heat on Mr Blair, so that he stays on, hands over to (say) Mr Miliband just before the next election, provoking an (even more) open revolt from the Brownites, which splits the Labour Party and wins the Conservatives their biggest majority since records began. Another theory ...