It’s been a hell of a decade for people accidentally creating monsters they can’t control or corral, isn’t it. 
As I’ve been saying for a long time: people know exactly what the Tories are and they’re absolutely fine with it, as long as they’re getting what they want - maximum viciousness, raw spite, idiotic flag-waving, cruelty and crackdowns on people they don’t like.
Here’s the thing about the news/entertainment industry creating a monster backlash electoral bloc that only wants the dumbest, meanest, nastiest motherfucker it can get to crack the skulls of people they don’t like: you can’t make it stop if their stupidity gets your gran killed.
I think the Times in particular thought they could shitefest Johnson over the line then put him back in his box, and we’d go back to normal. But now “normal” is millions of people loving the most cretinous, cruel shit imaginable, thanks to people like the Times editorial team.
I’m sure the press really could bring Johnson down if they put their backs into it - Covid alone, Jesus Christ - but I don’t see how they can do it without basically torching the Conservative Party for a generation, and I don’t see where the cracks are you could jam a crowbar in.
It took them three years to realise the cracks in the Labour coalition were Brexity old farts and dim liberals. Even then, they were reliant on full cooperation by 40 or 50 MPs doing outright treason to the point of suicide bombing themselves, and they had to burn the house down.
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