Today's reports regarding the Birthday Party in No.11 are yet another example of the incompetence and dishonesty that beats at the very heart of our Government, it echoes the hollowness of Johnson's repeated broken promises of taking responsibility and ownership of it, it shows Johnson's naivety as a strategist in believing that by sheer force of will he can make something disappear, he's the driver of a car hurtling towards the edge of a cliff maintaining he should continue to hold the wheel because he's got this far.
I'm led to believe the numbers are there, the delay is in making sure they can remove the head of the beast rather than just bloody its nose, they realise that they've really only got one shot at this and every day Johnson's lack of political prowess and inability to deal with leadership weakens his position, death of a thousand cuts, if you will.
And again this shows Johnson's lack of political savvy, if he was a smart, confident political operator he should have encouraged his supporters en masse to put in letters to the 1922 Committee as soon as the fixed Penalty Notice was given by the Police, not on the basis he had lost their confidence but on the rationale he was allowing his peers to judge him and his actions, he would have ridden that storm and neutered the position of Sunak as a possible successor, bought a year of stability and hoped his press team could deliver the water from the Styx to an electorate with notoriously short memories.