A San Andreas Faultline has appeared in British politics, and it might seem that the tectonic plates will swallow the Tory Party whole. They won’t of course; the first past the post system probably won’t permit that, but the party has just had its Dunkirk. It’s not just that Sunak didn’t fully grasp the importance of D-Day to the British mindset. Quite as significantly, neither did his counsellors or the media, who all knew his schedule but since they all inhabit the rancid Westminster bubble, they said nothing in advance. So Hein Severloh, the German cook-cum-machine-gunner who claimed to have shot a thousand Americans that day on Omaha Beach, has bagged his final victim; Sunak’s prime ministerial career.
On those other beaches, June, Sword and Gold, one thousand British soldiers died on D-Day, and another thousand over the next six days, and another over the next six days, and so on for two months, a sort of Somme-sur-Mer, yet nobody in Westminster had a clue,
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