“A cabinet of shits, charlatans and shysters”

I think John Crace has the measure of Boris Johnson and his choices for the cabinet in the UK’s new, and hopefully very brief, government.

Addendum: a comment on another article in today’s Guardian sums it up quite nicely:

So now you have a narcissistic pathological liar as PM, a home secretary who supports the death penalty, a chancellor who was a casino banker for Deutsche Bank prior to the 2008 crash, a foreign secretary who doesn’t know why Dover is important for the British economy and who wants to shut down Parliament, a trade secretary who almost got a mental breakdown over cheese imports and a scarecrow as environment secretary.

What could possibly go wrong?