Apart from the rude ones, there is only one word for the fact that Theresa May’s former chief of staff Nick Timothy has been made a board member of the organising committee of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Inevitable. This is simply how stuff works. I’m only sorry our denuded empire means Nick can’t be given an Indian province or something. Or at least a go on Malaya.
The ways Timothy’s latest appointment were inevitable are many and various, and we’ll come to them shortly. But we must begin with a recap of how we got here. Because, of course, Nick wasn’t always the crayonner of red lines, the taxer of dementia, the shitter of the electoral bed. And, in one potential timeline, the parliamentary-maths-destroyer that ends up causing no-deal Brexit.
Written by Marina Hyde
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/jan/23/nick-timothy-commonwealth-games-birmingham-2022-theresa-may under the title “Nick Timothy fails at politics so walks straight into British sport’s blazer class | Marina Hyde”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
