Roundheads And Cavaliers

[poliphilo]

Corbyn is a roundhead and Johnson a cavalier.

The civil war has never really come to an end- and it's not unusual for roundhead to face cavalier across the despatch box. The most significant such pairings were Attlee and Churchill, Gladstone and Disraeli. Blair was a cavalier with a roundhead lieutenant breathing down his neck in the shape of Gordon Brown. Thatcher confused us all by being a roundhead in a plumed hat.

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[poliphilo]

Well, yes, circumstances have changed- and religion no longer has the grip on us it had back then- but the character types remain. Corbyn is a puritanical ideologue and Johnson a hedonistic adventurer.