The five stages of Grieve

The five stages of Grieve have been identified by psychologists:

1.   Denial

2.   Anger

3.   Bargaining (with foreign enemies)

4.   Believing your own wildest rhetoric

5.   Standing as a vanity candidate out of spite in a General Election

Many former MPs recently defenestrated may be feeling the signs of Grieve as the nights lengthen and the season of ill-will approaches. Once outgoing characters in an established rut, now thrown into the real world and feeling Gaukey, we should not be cruel – they are in need of help and counselling.

See also

• 101 Uses for a Dumped MP
• Sarah Wollaston joins Plaid Cymru
• Operation Casement: still no arrests
• Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
• Oh, and by others:
  • Accidental spies, useful idiots
  • Securing the exit endgame
  • Westminster in the exit endgame
  • Fixing the Withdrawal Agreement
  • Treason, stupidity, recklessness or hypocrisy?

Books

• By Rory Stewart:
  • The Places In Between
  • Occupational Hazards
  • The Marches
• By David Cameron:
  • For the Record
    • (Signed edition)
  • Cameron on Cameron
  • For the Record by David Cameron
• By Boris Johnson:
  • Seventy-Two Virgins
  • The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
  • The Dream of Rome
  • Have I Got Views For You
  • The Spirit of London
  • Johnson’s Life of London: The People Who Made the City That Made the World
• Woke: A Guide to Social Justice by Titania McGrath
• The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay (1841)
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, by Jordan B Peterson
• All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class by Tim Shipman
• Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union by Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin and Paul Whiteley
• Brexit: How the Nobodies Beat the Somebodies by Sebastian J. Handley
• Rising Tides: Facing the Challenges of a New Era by Liam Fox