'This is quite astonishing', exclaimed veteran ITV journalist Robert Peston on twitter this afternoon.
He was referring to the fact that Boris Johnson had just refused to rule out the idea of dissolving parliament in a bid to save his doomed premiership. There is nothing astonishing about what he said, it is just another standard move in the grubby Johnson playbook.
This is a Prime Minister and a man without morals, without integrity and as we are seeing in painful technicolour right now, without shame. But most of us knew that long before he was elected to the highest political office this country has. Plenty of us tried to warn of it too.
So there is absolutely nothing shocking or surprising about the grim situation the country now finds itself in. A humiliated, isolated and failed Prime Minister, desperately clinging to power despite the mass exodus of all those he was previously paying to keep him in post as he swirled from scandal to crisis and back again.
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It's important to remember that this person isn't like most of us, he isn't wired the same way as you or me. This is a man who genuinely believes he was put on this earth to rule over others, who believes this was his destiny. In reality that destiny was always going to end in the absurd chaos we are seeing right now.
Let's not forget that just a few weeks after he was elected Tory leader in 2019 - and without any sort of mandate from the people - he casually chose to unlawfully suspend parliament in order to get his own way. Many of those same MPs we are seeing fleeing this grotesque sinking ship today were fully supportive of him back then as he rode to electoral victory on a wave of lies and bluster.
It's a little rich to hear cabinet members who backed Boris Johnson throughout the excruciating months of party-gate revelations, the Owen Paterson scandal or any of the other ghastly spectacles he has dragged the country through in the past few years, now talk of matters of integrity and decency in public life. They knew back then as they know now that this is a man without scruples, who will lie his way out of any hole he finds himself in and will throw anyone in front of the bus to save his own skin.
So please don't venerate the likes of Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid or the huge army of resigning junior ministers for suddenly discovering a conscience or a backbone, they could and should have done this a very long time ago if they really cared about this country. But at least they are doing it now and we can start to think of a world in which this immoral narcissist is no longer our Prime Minister. It feels good to finally say that out loud.
Whether its the delegation of until-recently sycophantic cabinet ministers - currently trying to prise this spoilt child from his toys in Number 10 - that manage to end this nightmare, or the grey suits of the 1922 Committee who bullishly 'backed Boris' as the lord and saviour in the past, it doesn't really matter anymore, he is doomed, done for and soon to be disposed of and that's the most important thing.
While many of us will not be relishing what - and more importantly who - comes next, the immediate priority was always to remove this toxic presence from Downing Street and we can finally say that time has come. Good riddance.
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