Tuesday 6 September 2022

So, farewell, Boris

Alexander Boris de Piffel Johnson is no longer Prime Minister.

He is the favourite to take over from Liz Truss, and it is rumoured that up to 12 MPs are ready to make a vote in no confidence in her before she takes office.

Yes, it is really that mad.

Truss will be dreadful, but let's just celebrate Johnson blowing an 80 seat majority in the House and achieving nothing with that majority.

Nothing.

And that in the end, his own party forced him out of office, thanks to a combination of Partygate and the Pincher affair. In effect, his whole Cabinet resigned, those that were able to. Some departments had no Ministers or PPSes left.

He is without doubt the laziest PM ever to hold office. He missed 5 (five) COBRA meetigs prior to COVID because he was on holiday and needed to complete an biography on Shakespeare he had been paid for and had failed to deliver to his publishers.

He has still failed to deliver that manuscript.

He oversaw the implementation of his Brexit, which he has since disowned as the political realities were just too much. As he was warned.

And then there was COVID.

200,000 dead.

Tens of thousands of those caused by locking down to late, unlocking too early, mixed messages and Partygate with the PPE scandal on top of that.

When a clown is made King, the clown does not become regal, the court becomes a circus.

He surrounded himself in Cabinet with sycophants and those who swore loyalty to the one true Brexit.

The worst of the very worst.

Prior to the December 2019 election, he purged the Party of the "one nations conservatives" who had voted against him, that those were some of the most experienced Parliamentarians mattered not a jot.

We got left with Dorres, Patel, Raab and Cummings.

What will come will be worse, but Triss will work hard at least. She won't be funny, well, only when she speaks.

Then, in time, the party will turn on her too and vote her out.

And someone worse will take over.

Maybe even Johnson.

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