[lucozade]

> Sorry Boris, your Euroskeptic vision has failed in so many ways.

> Boris Johnson is out of parliament, making millions from speeches and newspaper columns.

I'm pretty sure Boris thinks he succeeded just fine. The rest of the country, not so much.

> All the key Vote Leave characters have left the stage.

I get why you'd want to try to forget about Nigel Farage but the article even has a graph showing how spectacularly Reform is surging in the polls. They'll probably not quite get to the level they need to take a chunk of seats, as their voters are probably quite spread out, but if they get anything close to these numbers in the vote today, that would be pretty impressive. Politically at least.

[rsynnott]

Well, yeah, they basically say it in the office; Boris got to be famous, and paid millions, which is, one assumes, what he was going for in the first place. The idea that he was doing any of this out of deeply-held principles always seemed... a bit naive.

[fmajid]

Boris picked Brexit as a vehicle to unseat his buddy Cameron, and couldn't care about the consequences for ordinary Brits. It was a hugely cynical choice, but entirely rational. Sunak, on the other hand, was a true believer. Yes, he may be disciplined and hard-working the way Johnson never could be, but there is nothing quite as destructive as a diligent moron.

[beej71]

Speaking as someone in the US, I certainly recognize the theme. Apparently quite effective, historically-speaking.