Weak, indecisive, incompetent, pathetic, cynical, bullied, fearful, lazy and a liar – the dreadful picture painted of Boris Johnson’s misrule is why the Prime Minister is a liability after the farcical Cummings and Goings in Downing Street.
The buck stops at the top and Johnson’s unsuitability for 10 Downing Street is graphically obvious when it took fiancee Carrie Symonds, furious departing chief aide Dominic Cummings nicknaming her Princess Nut Nuts, to put a backbone in a spineless leader by demanding he stand up to the Vote Lie Rasputin and and associate Lee Cain.
So Johnson’s inept judgement is the central issue just as it was over a Brexit career call and is over coronavirus fatal errors costing lives and livelihoods.
The chancer who wanted to be World King may prefer to be compared to Richard the Lionheart or Henry V but he’s another woeful Edward VIII with abdication the best outcome for the country.
Appointing a chief of staff and a smokescreen of announcements over the next couple of weeks, feigning concern for the Northern Poorhouse, is likely to buy him time.
Drafting a New Year ministerial reshuffle keeps Westminster’s fretting and ambitious in line over Christmas.
Yet the fundamental problem is Johnson himself and that won’t vanish until he’s dumped in history’s dustbin.
The PM’s apologists suddenly briefing he was furious with Cummings over that Barnard Castle lockdown-defying trip overlooks Johnson defending him publicly in the Summer.
David Cameron was right for once, dubbing Cummings a “career psychopath”.
Johnson squandered his own authority by giving it to a wrecker who’d pull the pin from an imaginary hand grenade then throw the bomb over his shoulder as he left a room.
Rishi Sunak isn’t alone in preparing for promotion. Keir Starmer’s stepping up attacks on the Chancellor in anticipation of him succeeding Johnson.
Labour’s nightmare is the Tories repeating a trick when Theresa May was ousted, presenting a fresh leader as a new Government providing change.
Tory talk of the PM running Britain like he did London is to repackage eight lost years symbolised by an unbuilt £53m garden bridge as a way forward into the future.
Johnson’s been found out, proved not up to the job.
The clock’s ticking. The question is when and how, not if, he’ll follow Cummings out of that famous black door.
