Johnson’s behaviour as a husband, as a journalist, as a lover, as a politician – in life ! – is stamped throughout by betrayal and dishonour. Examples abound. The blatant improbity in trying to get the despicable Paterson off the hook by abolishing the hook was the last straw. Any tolerance he still had is destroyed.
Immediately two events hammered in the nail. The hoar Frost, discussing Article 16 (the only thing he knows about?) in the House of Lords was told by several Lords that since it was he who had worked up the international treaty that included the protocol, it was his job to get it implemented.
More significantly, at COP 26, when all was done and dusted, the final agreement about to be passed, India-China did a Boris, pulled the plug on significant value by reneging on what had already been agreed by all, when it was too late to renegotiate. (it was a strange moment, Boris had chosen to defend the treachery of his govt at the conference, in case China had not already heard ?).
I believe this is a terminal moment for Boris, but it may be transitory, so carpe diem, I hope that the Union will now put the boot in on the implementation of the Brexit that was signed and sealed, as a whole, coherent deal. Boris and hoar David are too weak to adopt a truculent attitude. Otherwise, back to square ONE. Sunak is against that and is willing to say so . . .
Already the backroom-boys are seeking to rehabilitate the cheat in trivializing his betrayal of the very soul of the Mother of all Parliaments as “crashing the car”, as it were, in a moment of inattention. But this was not a moment of inattention, it was a stratagem of bloated hubris, obliging the full ruling party to vote in favour of his corrupt friend (very few resisted the bullying). It wasn’t the car he crashed, it was the Jumbo Jet that transported his government, and it was not inattention, it was betrayal.
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