God knows, Boris took his time analysing the chess board before he decided to be a Brexiter. And when the results came through and Cameron distanced himself from the big red button marked article fifty, Boris saw his queen being removed from the table, and he was visibly, well and truly a defeated man.
It's taken the best part of a week but Gove's Machiavellian manoeuvrings (hardly killer blows) have been seized upon with glee by the (now) jovial Johnson as he knocked his king over and delivered his final punch line – and I think it is his final punchline.
He is now toast. I can't even see him having a 'game show' future as he has now become not just a laughing stock but much much worse. His frolicsome gamble to become PM has wrecked everything in it's wake – we still can't even begin to calculate the cost. Hero to zero doesn't even come into it. The knives are out and hopefully he gets the full treatment. Hopefully he won't be able to prevent himself from dishing a good load of shite over Cameron for his roll in all this also.
