American Thinker:
By Monica Showalter
Like a pockmarked piece of rotten wood, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has seen his government collapse over a series of petty, stupid, self-inflicted scandals, and now he’s going down with it.
According to NBC News:
LONDON — Scandal-ridden British Prime Minister Boris Johnson capitulated to mounting pressure to step down Thursday, announcing his decision after days of high-profile government resignations and calls from fellow Conservative Party members to quit.
“In the past few weeks, I have been trying to convince my colleagues it would be eccentric to change governments when we have achieved so much,” he said in his speech outside No. 10 Downing St. amid loud booing from the crowd nearby. “I regret not to be successful in those arguments and, of course, it’s painful not to be able to see through those projects myself.”Johnson also said he planned to remain as prime minister until a successor is chosen — a move that may face opposition from others in an increasingly hostile Parliament. Obviously, it’s a sign that the Christine O’Donnell rule holds, even in U.K. politics — that a party with a good plan still needs to have good candidates, and Johnson, though he was a known factor with his shambly disorderliness, engaged in a lot of petty dishonesties and hypocrisies, similar to those of many Democrats, such as, say, Gavin Newsom of California, who’s been just caught vacationing in Montana despite signing a law saying that no state official is to travel there based on California’s wokester objections to Montana’s social policies, and who partied hearty in a maskless French Laundry excursion with Big Pharma lobbyists during the days when he had the entire state on COVID lockdown. Johnson got caught doing that, too, triggering a narrowly survived vote of confidence in parliament for it recently. He also appointed a sex harasser he knew about to a high government post and met a Russian intelligence linked official off the books in Italy out of official channels, to cite his most recent scandals. None of these scandals compare to the scale of scandal seen in Joe Biden — from stealing an election to the laptop from hell. Guys like Newsom survive these things with no repercussions.
Johnson didn’t. Little scandals like this are tinder when other factors are in play. more
“In short, he played a conservative on T.V. but he governed as a leftist.”
My exact impression. I thought we liked him, back when the Brexit vote happened, but nothing he has done since warranted any approval.
Bring me anuzzer vun, now!
Please stop reporting that he has resigned. He did no such thing and did not even mention the word in his speech. He is still the Prime Minister of England and probably will be until the fall at a minimum.