What is going on?

Three years ago, many miles of news print and megabytes of storage space were spent on pondering if May really wasn't useless, but maybe had some kind of Machiavellian plan all along.

All that was rubbish, she really was crap, and was executing a dreadful policy, dreadfully using idiots to execute it.

Three years later, the same questions are being asked of Johnson: is he really that dumb, if not, what is the plan?

In one day, Johnson became PM and replaced almost every minister, putting in place people with no apparent skills of experience in the field they had been placed. Initially, this was seen as good, Brexiteers taking control, it would be their screw up. But what if this was a plan, to make the screw up certain?

On top of that, Johnson made his first speech in the Commons as PM, laying out that not only was the backstop undemocratic, but it would have to go completely. And be put in the Political Declaration (PD) where he said it belonged.

This was nuts, but he knew it.

And sure enough, a few hours later, the EU released a strongly worded statement saying that the backstop was going nowhere.

Is the plan to blame the failure of Brexit on the EU? And when that is an accepted truth, trigger an election in the hope of burying the Brexit Party?

With numbers in the Commons, this could make sense, re balancing numbers, so that whatever the real policy is can pass. Maybe Brexit was never the plan after all.

See what happens, we overthink things, and maybe he is just a bumbling tousle-haired upper class twit? But he is ambitious, he has the job he always wanted, and he must have a plan?

Whatever happens there will be an election this autumn, and the only way to stop Brexit will be for Labour to come out as a remain party, something which is unlikely (or Corbyn replaced), or the other parties make a grand alliance so that just one of them fight in each constituency so the remain vote isn't split.

Interesting times ahead, but not in a good way, as the economy, business and the people are stuck in the middle as this powerplay is played out.

Fuck our luck.