I will confess here to still retaining a small bit of liking for Boris Johnson, despite all that has happened since 2020, mostly because of my gratitude to him for getting Brexit over the line against globalist opposition (even though I knew he didn't really believe in it), and for being a reasonably good non-far left mayor of London.

I, like Gato, recall a few weeks early on in the 'crisis' - though perhaps it was just one week? Or a weekend? - when it seemed the Johnson government was planning to allow Covid to sail through the UK population so we could quickly achieve herd immunity and be done with it. Ah, what might have been.

I do accept that I may be exhibiting symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome. Of the captors that have been torturing my fellow citizens and me for the past 2 1/2 years, Johnson occasionally seemed to be reluctant. Perhaps that was his role.

But when the British Conservative party decides to be rid of you, it gets rid of you. It gets done over a few days. That's how a parliamentary system is meant to work. (Canadian Liberals, please take note.)