article_snippet.sent: Letting Scottish Nationalists dictate the direction of the UK government would be like getting King Herod to 'run a baby farm', Boris Johnson warned today in an escalation of Tory attacks on the SNP.
article_snippet.sent: London Mayor likened it to 'asking a fox to look after the henhouse or a temperance campaigner to run a brewery'.
article_snippet.sent: You wouldn't get Herod to run a baby farm, would you?,' Herod wrote in the Daily Telegraph. '
article_snippet.sent: It would not normally occur to you to interview a convicted jewel thief for the post of custodian of the Tower of London. '
article_snippet.sent: You would not dream of asking a fox to look after the henhouse or a temperance campaigner to run a brewery or Attila the Hun to work as a doorkeeper for the Roman senate. '