BOJO resigns: time to fence with chesterton?

gato polls the audience on what is to come next

of all the covidian leaders, boris was one of the most disappointing. he showed a glimmer of standing strong right at the beginning and siding with sweden and the netherlands. alas, both he and the dutch lost their courage and went the other way.

and now, he of denis the menace hair and even more menacing policies is no more.

BOJO the clown is down.

the political wheels are spinning fast now.

this article is yet another intriguing sign of division and search for exculpation: blame the wife.

To head-scratching friends on Capitol Hill I describe it thusly: The Johnson government was built, by Carrie, on the sand of her own ability to blackmail the people around her. The corporate media journalist she had long trysts with. The Members of Parliament she worked with, around, and under. The civil servants who for some reason – probably fear of crippling exhaustion – loathed her presence and went along with demands to get her off their backs.

this seems an awfully tepid and lame means to rehabilitate boris the brainless. the track record of anyone so easily led and manipulated last time suddenly growing a spine and standing tall next time is astonishingly poor. so beat it, don’t let the downing street door hit you in your ample ass on the way out, and leave the cat when you go.

but now comes the tricky part:

what next?

i remember a great deal of cheering in NY state at the defenestration of cuomo. few are still elated.

kathy hochul has proven worse still demonstrating once more that one must always take a good look at the fire before leaping out of a frying pan and many times these political decapitations come not from principle but as pretext.

no one suddenly grew a conscience.

they saw political risk and political opportunity and the attractions of turning on the king suddenly outweighed the danger. this is how new factions rise for none dare call treason that which just succeeded.

and this is why i invoke chesterton’s fence:

we’re about to meet “the new boss.” will it be the same as the old boss? am improvement? a step further downward?

was boris impeding access to better or holding back far worse?

failing to ask such second order questions before acting is to court catastrophe.

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…when you compare individual candidates against one another in head to head contests (as happens in the final stage of a Conservative leader election) a clear winner emerges among Conservative members: Ben Wallace (2/3) yougov.co.uk/topics/politic…

based on polling, ben wallace appears the favorite to assume the tory lead. just what this portends is unclear to me.

therefore, based on what seemed some informed commentary on past posts, i’d like to poll the audience.

what do those of you that know him/of him think? what are his policies and what is his character?

will we land outside the fire here or deep in its heart?

is he the likely lead or is it another?

and would his ascension to leadership help tory prospects or harm them? might it usher in labour?

i’m just not up on the inside baseball of UK parliamentary politics.

give me some grist for the mill.