Interesting take. Ageist, but interesting.

Perhaps those members would have preferred to keep Boris and have a chance of winning the next election, but had that chance taken away by a load of moronic self-serving back benchers and globalist puppets.

The Tory MPs realised that Johnson had stepped over the line too often to continue to lead them, that the general mood in the country was the same and that a change was necessary, both in the country's interest and their own.

Unfortunately the system they used to select their leader resulted in them having someone they didn't want foisted on them by a bunch of unrepresentative activists.

Johnson behaving as he did was what started this Tory slide into oblivion and the probable next Labour government, which is not what I want to see. That Truss is even worse doesn't change that. The MPs won't accept him back, even if the dim activists might.

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There is always the bigger picture.

That being that they had no good alternative and that Boris could win the next election.
It is quite astonishing that a government with such a huge majority could commit suicide in such a manner.
Johnson was always a flawed leader, but his flaws were well-known when he was elected. However, the idea that he was somehow a bigger liar than all the other liars in the House of Commons is quite ridiculous.

Amazing act of self destruction, perhaps if the party can allow such to happen it is past the sell by date.

There has to be an audience for party with old school Conservative values

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

To some of us, yes, but not to all. Choosing someone who had gained public attention via being a TV personality is what happened in the USA. So we did it too! We chose another populist.

Johnson was never going to be the kind of leader this country needs. That he managed to appeal to the baser instincts of those who would traditionally vote Labour might have been politically clever, but also quite sad. It was clever marketing, and not a demonstration of those values for which we have a hard earned reputation. A reputation which has now been trashed. Started by Johnson and completed by Truss.

Johnson won't be back, and ought not ever play any kind of public role again, except as an entertainer. Something he is actually pretty good at.

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You might say that, but my recollection is that people chose the Tories under Boris over the disgrace that is the Labour Party in a two horse race with one runner trying to ignore a democratic referendum result.

Funny how you have forgotten so quickly.

The same Labour Party incidentally had a massive spend up before they left office, causing the country to need austerity measures to reduce the debt.