Swivel-eyed

"'Guess they was swivel-eyed, then, fer it didn't git home, and I know who'll find his boots on the main-truck ef he don't leave us alone.

If he succeeds, Mr Johnson will have demonstrated that the Conservative Party is no longer a broad church, and that swivel-eyed and unthinking loyalty is a prerequisite for admission to its group of MPs.

Of course, what the swivel-eyed "Let's Go WTO" brigade fail to comprehend (as they fail to comprehend most things) is that our negotiations with the EU then restart the day after that happens - as, whether they like it or not, we ARE going to make a deal with the EU.

So, thank you toff-twerp Jacob Rees-Mogg, monomaniac Sir Bill Carcrash, barmy Sir Peter Bonehead and all the other swivel-eyed Brexiteers who have brought us to this pass.

He risked inflicting pain and suffering on this country just to appease the swivel-eyed lunatics on his backbenches.

That surely is an unacceptable price to anyone but the most swivel-eyed of Brexiteers.

Which minister described some Brexit-backing Tory colleagues as "swivel-eyed" elderly men with no mortgages or young children?

In David Cameron's own estimation, these were "swivel-eyed loons", yet for some reason he allowed them to steer the course of British politics into the mess it's in now.

Of course, this ill-will has been fanned by Ukip, by their swivel-eyed allies in the Tory Party and by Right-wing newspaper bosses like Rupert Murdoch who cynically manipulate public opinion.

All well and good when aimed at swivel-eyed Islamists using the internet to persuade gullible teenagers that suicide vests are the latest must-have fashion accessory.

There have been angry and sometimes rather alarming phone calls, letters and emails from swivel-eyed fanatics or thin-skinned folk who have been offended by my ramblings.

Some saw Nigel Farage as the bold saviour of our democracy while others declared him the swivel-eyed loon that David Cameron always said he was.