So there's now a genuine chance of a witlessly offensive joke, in a column Boris Johnson presumably knocked off in under an hour from holiday, triggering a Tory leadership contest.
If May had just ignored the Attention-Seeking One, she'd have been silently condoning racism. By launching disciplinary process, she's making him a martyr & strengthening his appeal for the voters he's after. There is no good option.
If this seems very familiar it's because rational people have been getting caught in this trap for a good two years now, & we still don't really know how to deal with naked opportunism in a super-volatile climate.
Boris is actually a pretty bad populist. He's indecisive (2 versions of Brexit article, didn't quit over Chequers until Davis did) where they're absolute & hardly in touch with masses. He's basically Kylo Ren, halfway to the dark side. But he'll learn.
& if you're thinking 'great, Tories split, election, all sorted' I'd just briefly ask what it is about recent politics that makes you so confident that the unleashing of dark forces invariably leads to the good guys winning
