It does look like Boris Johnson has run out of road with both his party and the British public. In my last Poetry & Polis I predicted he would win the Confidence vote in his party. The scandal over Christopher Pincher now feels terminal because that vote had put the Prime Minister on notice, and yet the caucus has caught him out in recidivist and amoral "Spin" again. He has also done what he always does - he has taken hostages among those who defended his handling of the Pincher scandal, and they resent being lied to.
I had previously argued that Johnson's continuation in office was necessary to stabilise UK Government at a time of War in Europe. Neither the Prime Minister nor Mr Pincher have behaved with the maturity and stoicism which public service demands in an age of chronic geopolitical crisis.
We must get things in their true perspective. Christopher Pincher has behaved improperly. He has committed what are ( minor) indecent assaults in some jurisdictions. It sounds that he has been an outstanding constituency MP for Tamworth. His work on UK-Latvian relations has been relevant to UK Strategy than anything Liz Truss was doing before she was catapulted into the Foreign Secretaryship. Love thy enemy is as old as Exodus 23 and Leviticus 19. Pincher is nobody's enemy. He has been a fool. He has not even given anyone monkeypox. Whereas the lockdown Abba party doubtless infected whole neighbourhoods and may have taken a few lives.
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