The end game

The Conservative and Union Party has been in power since May 2010. That's 12 and a half years.

The first five years, they were in coalition with the LibDems, who, though we didn't know it at the time, curbed the Tory's more extreme behaviour, but since 2015, the Tories have been in charge.

It's worth remembering, that the 2010 NHS satisfaction survey had the highest ratings ever. Since then, spending in it and staff has been cut and slashed. Fat trimmed and thrown away, so when a real emergency came, there was no bandwidth to deal with it, unless it was by people working sill long hours with little or no PPE.

Then came Brexit, and although we were told we could have our cake and eat it. That was a lie.

As was that we could increase trade by putting up barriers to trade.

Simple lies sounded too good to be true, and were, but people believed the lies.

That we could have a better deal out of the Eu than actual member states. And when Johnson came to power, that his WA complete with NIP would mean no regulatory border in the Irish Sea, though this is what its chapters and schedules set out in great details, as international treaties do.

Johnson denied the border in the Irish Sea, but denying something over and over doesn't make it go away.

And unlike cakeism, there are consequences to pay. And this meant for Johnson the fact that he had split the UK single market, because NI remained in the EU's for some goods.

With political Brexit in Janauary 2020, Brexit and reality shared the same universe, and reality always wins.

Then came COVID, and listening to Johnson and his Government you would believe he and his Government deserved huge credit for saving hundreds of thousands from infection and death. When the relaity was that data was twisted, advice ignored, and actions taken that condemmed tens of thousands of people to early deaths.

Johnson then lead the nation in clapping for the NHS and critical workers, the ones he and Truss now lable as militant for wanting a wage increase to match the inflation the two of them have caused.

Meanwhile, Johnson oversaw mass flouting of lockdown laws and guidance, denied it happened, then said all guidance had been followed, then he didn't know about them, then didn't know a party was a party, then turned out he arranged parties. He was chased out after ignoring allegations against a whip, this resulted in most of his Cabinet resigning before he himself resigned.

44 days after becoming leader and PM, Liz Truss today also resigned.

It is possible that Johnson might be relected by Tory MPs.

Neither he or Truss in their resignation speeches accepted any blame for the chaos caused, the lives lost and public money spent.

Johnson becoming PM again might terminally split the Conservative Party in two, or cause riots in the streets. Or both.

The contempt he and the Conservative Party have shown the country and its people is breathtaking.