The Well-Deserved Downfall of Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was finally induced to announce his departure from Downing Street on July 7, 2022, after many months of scandal and tumult, blundering into a thoroughgoing condition of complete defeat that he had brought upon himself (with no one, apart from his unspeakable wife and a few wretched toadies, still willing to support him), as a direct result of haphazardly pursuing his own reckless whims. It was the messy, inevitable conclusion to a filthy story of monstrous selfishness and bottomless corruption, as well as being a well-deserved downfall. In short, Boris Johnson was the cause of his own destruction.

Over the three years in which Boris Johnson was Prime Minister, pitching himself from one bout of trouble to another, his actions were always reliably condemnable, but never particularly surprising. Throughout the course of his heedless life, in public and in private, he has regularly shown himself to be an unmitigated rotter, a walking abomination, an unworthy man who is utterly without even the faintest trace of dignity, honesty, integrity, morals, values, or principles. For that reason, it could have been easily foreseen by anyone with open eyes that, as Prime Minister, he would set about the careless task of gleefully wrecking the peace and stability of the nation that he supposedly was leading.

The profound depth of Boris Johnson's infamy is such that he has no apparent equals within the generally accepted traditions of British politics. Even when judged by the insufferably foul standards of his Conservative Party, he is absolutely peerless, clearly standing out among all other Tories as a singularly reprehensible figure. He is, more than anything else, a shameless waster: a loutish, overgrown child whose repeated instances of depraved mischief are driven by the clumsy force of a wanton conceit that is both uncontrollable and unquenchable. At each step of the way as Prime Minister, he has been every rational citizen's worst nightmare.

In the hours after Boris Johnson stepped down, it was not yet known when he would actually hand over power to someone else. Although he had assented to voicing his "resignation" as Prime Minister, he had also expressed his desire to stay in Downing Street until a new leader is chosen for the Conservative Party, a process that could take a number of weeks, calling into question his true intentions. Given his past record, it is extremely unlikely that he will be inclined to surrender what remains of his authority in a graceful manner. One thing, at least, is quite certain: "doing what is best for the nation" will never enter into his thoughts. Beyond that, the outcome is a bit iffy.

Although Boris Johnson is on his way out, the prospect for the United Kingdom is still discouragingly grim. Under the burden of Johnson's feckless leadership, Britain has suffered greatly, and continues to suffer. Tens of thousands have been allowed to perish from Covid-19. The cost of living (especially the cost of food and fuel) is higher than it has been for forty years, mostly due to the ill effects of Britain's haphazard withdrawal from the European Union. Adding to the current problems is the lack of any strong opposition, with the Labour Party, which usually provides the main counter to Conservative policies, refusing to offer an effective antidote to the plague of unbridled Toryism.

Once Boris Johnson is no longer Prime Minister, the people of the United Kingdom must ask themselves, "How is it that an undeniable villain was allowed to become our leader?" The harsh answer to that essential inquiry is unavoidable: the fundamental structure of "democracy" has failed in the United Kingdom, in the same way that it has failed in the United States and other Western nations. Merely removing Boris Johnson from Downing Street is not sufficient. The British people must also remove the capitalist evil, an evil rooted in greed, wealth, and lies, that put him there. Until that evil is exposed and rejected, the fate of the United Kingdom will hang in the balance.