At George Floyd’s funeral ceremony a veteran civil rights campaigner who had worked with Martin Luther King Jr remarked that the crowds who were demonstrating about Floyd’s death were composed of not only African Americans, but white people, Hispanics and Asians. And that is true, with an adjustment of word usage, for the demonstrations across the UK. People have come together.

You really have to hand it to Boris Johnson. He has brought the country nearer to revolution than anyone since the Chartist movement.

The essence of his strategy, (or is it Dom’s?), is to please the 30% of the electorate who are his unquestioning supporters, and to divide the remaining 70% into warring factions.

At times of elections the mainstream media, (MSM), can almost always be relied upon to provide enough additional votes for the Tories to get past the FPTP marker, and so end up as the semi-permanent party of government.

It is strange to think that root cause of the recent demonstrations is the murder of a black man by police three thousand miles away. For whatever reason, this issue has caused the 70% to coalesce rather than to factionally fight. That should be a very worrying sign for Johnson.

The newly united majority have come to the inescapable conclusion that the Prime Minister is utterly unfit to run anything more important than an office squash ladder. And a fair proportion of those who voted for the pro-Brexit rump of the Tory party in December have come to understand that Johnson is a front for some chillingly nasty groups who hide in the shadows.

Just about the first action Thatcher instigated was the improvement of police pay, and the foundation of anti civil-disobedience sections, especially the SPG. When she took on the miners the state was well protected and prepared. But ten years of austerity have led to a large drop in police numbers and a real-life freeze of pay. I’m not sure how much the unwavering support of the police can be relied upon.

The Black Lives Matter protests are not burning themselves out, in fact they seem to be gaining momentum. It is going to be a long, hot summer for Boris Johnson.