Most of the pressure on Johnson comes from a) the inevitable consequences of his utter, careless incompetence, fuelled by his psychopathic narcissism, b) the

Most of the pressure on Johnson comes from a) the inevitable consequences of his utter, careless incompetence, fuelled by his psychopathic narcissism, b) the impotent rage of uninformed populists who were misled by his purely selfish, transactional, expedient choices (including his documented, arbitrary position on Brexit) and who are doubling down on the nonsense he sold them rather than kicking him to the kerb, c) and those of us in a broad left/right consensus who recognise a) and b), and who have been trying to tell those who do not for literally decades that this man belongs nowhere near power because he believes in nothing but himself and will lie to anyone to get power for himself. In other words: the pressure on Boris is all about the failings of Boris. One of the big questions I think people should begin to ask is: what if there is no successor to Boris in the sense of those who came before? What if whoever comes after him arrives in a system that bears little resemblance to the system in which, for example, Margaret Thatcher or even Tony Blair operated? What if the many outcomes of his inverse Midas Touch are so severe that Britain as a political entity ceases to exist and England becomes a corrupt, undemocratic state with a Prime Minister who comfortably operates independently of parliamentary scrutiny by default? Our system is failing very quickly, and the only people who can remove Boris Johnson from power are experiencing the exact same frog-boiling of their ethical codes that happened to the GOP. How many chances has he had? And does anyone telling us earnestly that he is on his last chance really believe it?