The media reports Boris might quit because he's fed up and doesn't want the responsibility anymore. This is probably believable because he is lazy and irresponsible.
The media also reports that he's whining because he can't afford enough staff; more than one cleaner (no doubt paid minimum wage) and a nanny for the sixth child he chose to have.
People on Universal Credit have to manage without hired help. Child care is a perennial issue for working class parents. They do not receive £tens of thousands a month, if they did the right wing media would be apoplectic.
This is the essence, and the proof, of class war in Britain.
That same media will defend Johnson to the hilt over that. How can he work effectively otherwise? He must have all these things. If the complains were coming from working class families, particularly those with 6 kids to support from multiple partners, there would be precisely zero sympathy.
This is obvious. It is also class war. It takes different, antagonised, positions on the same position depending on which side of the class divide you sit. The working class single parent won't get getting their child into Eton, won't be in line for the job of PM - a job Johnson only wanted because he though that a) he was entitled as an Etonian (that's the purpose of an Eton education) and b) because ir looks like jolly old larks wot!
To be honest, we all know he isn't even PM: it's Cummings and Gove that make the decisions. He just has to attend meetings, sit in front of the camera, play wiff waff. When it comes to the hard work, he's not interested. This year has been nothing but hard work. Will he quit? I can't possibly say. Are the rumours credible? Hells yes!
Exhibit the second: eat out to help out. Remember that? Rishi Sunak, our friendly former hedge fund manager now chancellor, is reportedly planning a benefit freeze to balance the books. Of course he will, this is also a non controversial claim. Will the right wing, through its media, object? They would if the proposal was to tax the rich or even close a few loopholes created by and exclusively for the rich. That would be viewed as 'stifling growth/innovation'. Whereas cutting the support desperately needed so the working class don't starve (at least not in numbers sufficient to provoke revolution!) is acceptable because it 'builds character' and stops 'welfare dependency'.
Sunak has been repeatedly framed as Johnson's successor. While Boris is proving incoherent and bumbling (the more sympathetic elements of the right wing media will put this down to his deliberately self-inflicted brush with Covid) Sunak is a safe pair of hands. Given the current sharp increase in cases, as the apparent manifestation of a second wave, his reputation should now be in tatters and the man exposed as another capitalist hoping to buy his way out of a crisis the economic system he's sold his soul to cannot process.
And so to the big news: some slight conditions have been imposed, supposedly, for six months. Conditions that will no doubt be ignored by the ruling class. Yet these restrictions are pathetic in the face of a second wave. However the announcement that we're in this for another six months (including the critical Brexit cliff edge) is just a mental kick in the nuts.
They have squandered Summer's good will, ignored their own misdeeds, burned up any authority they may have had, and replaced it with creeping authoritarianism. Fining people ten grand is utter stupidity. That will never work. Punishing people for behaving as you have conditioned them to do is a fool's errand. But then we are led by fools.
Today is the also the Equinox. I hope nature takes this period of decreasing sunlight to renew itself just as I hope we can.
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