However for now it's nonetheless sooner or later tense. The precise second of departure can not come a day too quickly.
Boris Johnson will go down in historical past as our worst ever Prime Minister, probably the most dishonest, probably the most corrupt, probably the most incompetent, the one who did probably the most harm to our energy and standing on this planet.
As he retreats to likely rich oblivion, nevertheless, there must be a reckoning about him that goes properly past the persona of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
The massive query, which a few of us have been posing lengthy earlier than he obtained into this place of energy, was how did it occur?
That a criminal and a liar, a charlatan and a narcissist, might rise to the best elected workplace within the land, suggests a whole failure of our political and media programs and the vulnerability of our structure, which he exploited so effortlessly and so ruthlessly to land a very powerful job within the nation.
Spare me any crocodile tears, Johnson did nothing however hurt.
Spare me all these ministers who will now search to take credit score for taking him down after they have been so completely important in propping him up for therefore lengthy.
The one Tory heroes on this are those who refused to sacrifice their rules to him.
Spare me too any observations from these proper wing analysts and commentators who will now glide effortlessly from eradicating their tongue from Johnson’s bottom to explaining why he needed to go and why the following completely unsuitable candidate of the laborious proper is the particular person to take over.
They're all in it collectively. Everybody who sat at that cupboard desk must be barred from working.
Historical past will probably be harsh on a person who has debased our politics, undermined the rule of regulation, trashed alliances with our closest buddies and neighbours, normalised mendacity and corruption, and put the peace course of in Northern Eire in danger.
Nonetheless the one a part of his legacy that may outlast him, even when his colleagues conform to his ludicrous demand to remain on till the autumn, and debase and degrade our nation additional simply by his presence in that nice constructing, is the largest.
Brexit.
It might not have occurred with out Johnson, who's now uncovered for all to see for the liar and criminal I and others have been warning he's.
Brexit was gained on that very same model of lies and crookery too and it's a additional signal of our damaged politics that regardless of nearly each professional now agreeing it's going badly for Britain, it appears that evidently no person in politics desires to confront that actuality.
That's the subsequent battle that must be fought to take again management of regular smart grown up politics.
For now, simply be glad Boris Johnson goes.
However don’t fairly consider it till he's lastly out of that well-known door for the final time, and off to his conferences with talking brokers, publishers, oligarchs and common ne’er do wells so he can financial institution himself a couple of million, and perhaps discover a couple of extra ladies to father a couple of extra youngsters and unfold his amorality elsewhere.
A minimum of we gained’t need to care an excessive amount of any extra.
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