Corrupt, incompetent, lying, complacent, hypocritical, poisonous, lazy, dithering, parasitic, frequently wrong, arrogant, self-serving and sleazy...Boris Johnson’s lengthening charge sheet is why the mood’s changing and he’ll go down in history as one of our worst Prime Ministers.
The latest attempted coup by the tinpot tyrant, Britain’s Trump stopped from turning the country into a sordid banana republic by widespread revulsion, is thankfully a turning point for a permanently tarnished leader with a record -20 approval rating.
Labour and a freshly angry Keir Starmer are rejuvenated, on return from Covid isolation, by a Tory toxic crisis that presents a golden opposition opportunity to nail jaundiced Johnson as a shameless charlatan exploiting and letting down the voters who put him into Downing Street.
Government contempt for people and Parliament is the rottenness of one-party rule, a PM taking folk for granted unintentionally constructing a persuasive case for radical change at the ballot box.
John Major, no stranger to sleaze as a Tory Premier, rightly savaged Johnson as a master – monster would be more appropriate – ruling over the plebs and Environment Secretary George Eustice is a mug if he really considers sleaze to be a storm in a Westminster tea cup.
Politicians who get away with bad behaviour in the good times find the fury molten in the bad - Tory tax and price rises squeezing the life out of household budgets rocket-fuelling hostility to MPs behaving grotesquely.
Britain’s misfortune is to be clobbered by an unholy trinity of Brexit, Covid and Johnson.
The No 10 twister will drop a dead cat to distract attention from his plight, Starmer correctly identifying Johnson’s usual trick is to blame the European Union for his own supermarket shelf-emptying poor deal.
But people will no longer give him the benefit of the doubt.
Johnson’s dirty hands are why politics requires cleaning up.
Starmer and Labour are back in the race.
