This will be fairly short.
I had planned not to write part two until the Parliment voted on a new Prime Minister (which will happen sometime today — Friday), but the situation is just too ludicrous to wait. That can be part three.
Over the past 40 or 50 hours, the online newspapers have been posting new lead stories every two or three hours as the rumours of support for and against different candidates have appeared and disappeared. It’s been a bit like watching waves rolling up and receding at the beach, with contradictory headlines appearing one after the other every couple of hours.
