Thread by @danielgoyal

I saw something different in Johnson's resignation speech. I saw someone who was very good at what he does...

A crafted, clever speech, speaking to those who had supported him and might again..."look what you are missing".

And as much as I would love to retort "nothing",...

...I fear the reality is "they" are going to miss him.

We say he failed. But from "their" perspective he didn't fail, he only got caught.

He delivered massive new revenues (from the public purse), opened up brand new revenues by putting the NHS "on the table" and freeing up..

the current financial space occupied by the exploitatively inert BBC. He managed to shift yet more power to the wealthy by reducing accountability and the need for profit-draining frivolities such as health and safety of workers, human rights, or wages that match inflation.

So adept at manipulation was Johnson that he even managed to restrict the right to passionately protest against his own exploitative and oppressive tactics, while still maintaining enough support from those he sought to exploit and oppress.

And just as the public started to groan with the pains of poverty and oppression, Johnson created a theatrical, attention-grabbing shift of blame onto "the immigrants". Distracting from his theft while galvanising and nourishing his racist base.

He is good at what he does. Deceiving. And that is a very handy skill to have when trying to keep as much of the public on side as possible as you fleece that same public of power and resource!

And is that not the MO of at least the current Tory Party...

take as much as you can from the workers - from the public - without losing too much public support

Deception then, is parr for the course

Demonstrated so powerfully with the voting record of Tory MPs on morally reprehensible bills...like dogs in heat, they just couldn't resist

But the very thing that made Johnson an exceptional stone-cold liar, a liar without equivocation, was the very same thing that eventually brought him down...

his lack of moral compass!

He couldn't see the gravity of his public betrayal when he partied during lockdowns.

He just didn't get the obscenity of allowing a sexual predator to control and influence his prey so freely. He was simply nowhere near a good enough person to be able to relate to the British people

The fact he is a proven misogynistic pervert provided additional proof of guilt.

More sinister, however, than the man is the party he exposed. They see themselves as elite and they aren't sorry for it. They are confined by the rules of a democracy and they don't like it. They are greedy and lack the morality to relate to the vast majority of the people.

And now they are finished. Even though they are so disconnected from the public that they can't see they went way, way too far and are now finished. I mean really, how can we ever trust them again?