May in more trouble

While Trump is celebrating his tax triumph, his alleged "special relationship" colleague Theresa May is suffering yet another blow, with the enforced resignation of her most trusted deputy, Damian Green. Now that's not a name that makes everyone spring to attention around the world. Most people in the UK, let alone the rest of the world, have probably never heard of him. But being unofficially deputy prime minister, he was supposed tc have an influential and powerful role in the government. Not any more, having been found to have made a young woman "uncomfortable" (this is the word used by every male accused of sexual harassment in the current "Metoo" climate), and also mysteriously having loads of pornography on his parliamentary computer. I say "mysteriously" because while there seems little doubt his computer WAS stuffed with porn (not hard porn apparently whatever that is) - and we know this because two retired police detectives have kindly told the world - he claims it had nothing to do with him. Anyway, fact or fiction, he has lost his job and will now have time to spend more time with his family, as they say. In Washington, Trump has already lost about a dozen of his former trusted mates, including of course Mike Flynn and Steve Bannon, the former for criminal-type reasons (lying to the FBI) and the latter for, basically, being Steve Bannon. Both men are infinitely better known around the world than Damian Green whose obscurity will now sink into even greater obscurity. Flynn has escaped jail by doing a deal with stoney-faced Robert Mueller and will no dobt make a lot of money somewhere...perhaps in Moscow. Bannon will also make a lot of money and continue to stir up trouble on behalf of the Very Right Wing component of the Republican Party. Theresa May will slog on hoping to survive until the next election but without her trustee Damian by her side. There are some days when she must think to herself: "What the hell am I doing this job for?"