The knives are out for Boris Johnson as events unfold at a pace even hungry reporters are finding dizzying to keep up with.
Till now it has proven difficult to pin down the Convict, as John Crace of the Guardian calls Johnson. Or, rather more aptly, to grab hold of the Greased Piglet, who after 3 years has made a right pig’s ear out of government and the office of Prime Minister.
But thanks to Chris “grab them by the bollocks” Pincher, the trail of corruption, incompetence and lies has finally led to where it was always going to lead: the slaughterhouse. Though Johnson for the time being hangs on like a turd that refuses to flush, soon we will hear him squeal his last, particularly since today he vowed he would still be Prime Minister in the morning, a defiant last stand of idiocy guaranteed to galvanize those calling for his departure into making sure he does.
The only note of caution of course is who comes next. Looking at the line-up – led by Sajid Javid, who thinks Ayan Rand’s soporific ode to capitalism Atlas Shrugged is the best book ever written, and Rishi Sunak, who built a swimming pool in his Yorkshire mansion whilst half the country survive on food banks – the country might not be any worse off if they kept Johnson.
At least Johnson is only self-obsessed, attracted like a moth to power, in need of adoration, and bloated with a sense of being a chummy leader who lets his minions have a good time boozing while they work. He is not ideologically driven and doesn’t care about policy, and would never be dangerous in the way Jacob Rees Mogg or Priti Patel would be.
Whoever it is, the country will still be in a mess until politics itself changes. That, as will be set out later, will only happen when AI is in control. Not of the people, but of the politicians and their corporate masters.