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"My father taught me many things here — he taught me in this room. He taught me — keep your friends close but your enemies closer." ('The Godfather'')
Some say Machiavelli provided Mario Puzo's inspiration: thieves and politicians both need to keep a watchful eye on their enemies.
One of Theresa May's first acts as PM was to appoint Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary (and later, Andrea Leadsom as an equally-improbable Agriculture Minister) - was this in spite of Johnson being called out on prime-time TV as "a nasty piece of work" by Eddie Mair, or because of it?
Either way, the gambit has failed: Johnson has exhumed the 'Leave' campaign's ambulatory lie about £350 million/week for the NHS, just as Mrs May has to up her sotto voce offer of £30 billion to the EU. The Tory Conference now promises to become an ordeal.
In Llandovery mart there is a statue commemorating Llewelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan, a lieutenant of Owain Glyndwr executed there in 1401 by the English, in the medieaval fashion of 'quartering' - pulled apart in four different directions by a team of horses, whipped up by the executioner.
Theresa May now faces the same fate of being pulled apart by opposing forces, whipped up by another executioner.
Some say Machiavelli provided Mario Puzo's inspiration: thieves and politicians both need to keep a watchful eye on their enemies.
One of Theresa May's first acts as PM was to appoint Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary (and later, Andrea Leadsom as an equally-improbable Agriculture Minister) - was this in spite of Johnson being called out on prime-time TV as "a nasty piece of work" by Eddie Mair, or because of it?
Either way, the gambit has failed: Johnson has exhumed the 'Leave' campaign's ambulatory lie about £350 million/week for the NHS, just as Mrs May has to up her sotto voce offer of £30 billion to the EU. The Tory Conference now promises to become an ordeal.
In Llandovery mart there is a statue commemorating Llewelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan, a lieutenant of Owain Glyndwr executed there in 1401 by the English, in the medieaval fashion of 'quartering' - pulled apart in four different directions by a team of horses, whipped up by the executioner.
Theresa May now faces the same fate of being pulled apart by opposing forces, whipped up by another executioner.
