BoJo GoGo

Conservatives under Boris Johnson, sowing: “This is brilliant! Yes!”
Conservatives under Boris Johnson, reaping: “We don’t care for this at all.”

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 7, 2022

Yeah, self protection

INCREDIBLE SCENES

“THE BENNY HILL THEME TUNE” IS BEING BLASTED OUT ON SKY NEWS. pic.twitter.com/N06wBwcoZl

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) July 7, 2022

The perfect musical accompaniment

So facing the possibility of removal by the Queen being activated, which unfortunately does not involve Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon, Boris Johnson has resign as leader of the Tories, and will be replaced at the earliest opportunity.

I don't know whether to be impressed that this level of toxicity turned his own party against him, or to be aghast that this is far less than Trump has done, and are still cowering in fear of the, "the short-fingered vulgarian," lurking in Mar-a-Lago.

I do wonder how suck a gormless prat has dominated UK politics for as long as he did though:

Boris Johnson has resigned as Conservative leader and blamed the “herd instinct” of Tory MPs for pushing him out of office, after a series of cabinet ministers told him he had lost the support of the party.

In a statement outside Downing Street, Johnson acknowledged that “no one is remotely indispensable” and accepted that it was the “will of the parliamentary Conservative party” that he should leave No 10.

But he also signalled his intention to stay on as prime minister while the party picks his successor, potentially until autumn, triggering an immediate backlash among Tory MPs.

The statement brings an end to an extraordinary standoff between Johnson and cabinet ministers, including his new chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi, who were urging him to quit amid anger over the Chris Pincher affair [Hiring a serial sexual abuser] and other scandals.

The problem was not that he lied to the British public, nor that he lied to the Tory establishment, it was that he did so in a way that made it clear that he was lying, and inevitable that he got caught.

So ends the career of one of the worst Prime Ministers in British History, and he might possibly have edged out Margaret Thatcher for the lead. 

Good riddance.