Johnson's Rasputin could spell his own demise...

WHEN I wrote in this blog only yesterday that Boris Johnson was committing political suicide in front of the entire nation I never for one moment thought that wiser counsel would not prevail and that this morning would dawn a Cummings-free zone.
So to find that he is still in post and that the chaos he has caused has become worse was disappointing. Until I realised that the smirk he wore leaving Downing Street last night was not only for the Rasputin-like hold he has on Boris Johnson but for the triumph of his game plan.
The man is a self confessed anarchist. What anarchists want is to create chaos and division on all sides. Job done then.

THERE are other possible explanations.
1 – He has dirt so extreme on Johnson that it is worth all this damage and disgrace to keep it under wraps;
2 – He is Machiavelli-like and taking the hit to protect Johnson from a much worse revelation that is just around the corner;
3 – Johnson has woken to the fact that his Covid strategy has been a cock-up from the get-go and wanted grounds to resign himself that might give him time to get clear of the implosion;
4 – The Russian report is worse than we fear.
It is also possible that he actually does think that Cummings acted properly, legally and with integrity. I find this the least likely of all because the price he is paying and will pay is too high for such bone-headed stupidity.

When the chips are down you throw the perpetrator under the bus. Sometime about now the 1922 Committee will be meeting. On the agenda will be – can we afford Johnson any more? No, it really will, but not in plain text of course. Johnson's problem now is that Cummings has become what he honestly always was – just an unelected, here today, gone tomorrow adviser. Disposable. Replaceable. He will be collateral damage to Johnson's earthquake departure.
Oh it won't happen right now. The Tory party dos not do things quickly. But the word will go out, the knife will go in and a slow death by exsanguination will occur.

SLIGHTLY ahead of Johnson's own departure, and quite soon, Scummings will find he has something better to do and will resign, rudely and arrogantly. And with a vast pay off and a huge non-disclosure deal.
There will be days of obfuscation of the main stream media (especially LK and RP) but after a short while Johnson will go, Raab will briefly hold the fort while a suddenly dusted down candidate for leadership will appear as if by magic and be offered to a primed and prepared party, to be elected by popular acclaim and take up the task of freeing the Tory party from the effects of DomCumVid-2020.
Providing there is no second wave of Covid-19 we shall slide quietly and easily towards a loosening of the rules. Trips to Durham will be offered to those willing to appear at the daily presser and NOT mention Cummings, Johnson, fatherhood or parenting. Take up will be low.