After what appeared to be a promising start, Boris has turned out to be what so many claimed he was, egocentric, shallow, unable to seek consensus, bullying and divisive. In other words an appalling prime minister. His whole game plan is in ruins and his government paralysed by an opposition alliance led by Corbyn, much derided by Boris, which has outplayed and outwitted him. And now he is having a tantrum and throwing his toys out of the pram. He is also throwing distinguished, loyal one nation Tories out of his, indeed their, party.
Apparently as I write this, political commentators and editors have been summoned to a ‘secret location’ to witness him make some kind of declaration directly to the people in a confection of imaginings which will try to project him as the champion of the people against a wicked parliament and a cowardly opposition which tyranises them. What a complete fiasco for what is supposed to be a government, leaving the world gobsmacked. Meanwhile his negotiations with the EU, which he claims are on track towards a deal, are, according to insiders non-existent. The EU’s lead negotiator described them as ‘in a state of paralysis’.
That the prime minister is a liar and untrustworthy is now accepted as a political fact of life. Our country and our now threatened Union deserve better that this. The Tory party has put us here. It has a lot to answer for.