Boris’s implosion was inevitable

So it ends as it was always likely to end: as a disgrace inside a shambles, lost in a fog of delusion. Boris Johnson’s fate was sealed the moment he became Prime Minister. As was apparent to those who cared to look, nothing in his past suggested he would have the chops to be a successful Prime Minister. The manner of his departure now is wholly in keeping with the substance of his premiership. In years to come, we may wonder how it ever happened at all even as we do our best to forget it did.

This has been a low and embarrassing period in British political history. There have been failed prime ministers before and shameless ones too but few, if any, who can match Johnson’s inadequacies. Even his great election triumph was built on a false prospectus. As the votes were counted in December 2019, Johnson and his fanboys (they were chiefly boys) misunderstood the nature of the mandate he had been given.