Are you sitting comfortably? Then let us begin.
On Wednesday the Commons Privileges Committee will be finally having its long awaited face to face questioning of Boris Johnson and 'Partygate' and we are all invited to watch on tv.
COVID restrictions may seem a long time ago now, but at the time those restrictions complicated lives, loved ones were not seen and for some mourning was curtailed; under sanctions dictated to us by the Conservative government we restricted our lives for the greater good of the country.
In No.10 those very rules that they had imposed on us, were wantonly ignored and a culture of disdain for them and by default for us the public, was prevalent and condoned. Boris Johnson may use weasel words and flaunt his self- righteous indignation at having to face the committee but we have the right to hear and watch his testimony, that is called democracy. Whatever his excuses are, and they will be many and embroidered, the mere fact that we are questioning a former Prime Minister for apparent flagrant disregard of the rules his own government instigated, is significant but shockingly inevitable with that administration.
What Boris Johnson will try to do on Wednesday is shift blame, his usual tactic. He will use bluff and hyperbole, but we are not fools and we remember all too well the claustrophobia of our lives constricted by rules. Rules that were broken at No 10 and for which Johnson needs to be held to account, no matter how much he feels himself above the common order of things, immune from our demands for a reckoning.
His reckoning is on Wednesday ...book your seats for a showdown.