Gromit, dragging your petulant bottom lip from thread to thread (unless I've lost count this is the third) puts you in danger of joining the PP club.
Tomus, //If you're (still) a Boris supporter you've got two choices at this point, either stay quiet or look foolish.//
That sounds like an ultimatum but why you think that your opinion, or that of the 'ovinesque' mob would influence me is anyone's guess. Having read the truly spiteful bile here I can assure you that I choose my company rather more carefully.
Back to the topic. As I see it, Boris can capitulate to the hounding, which, as the weak-minded and the self-serving join the fray, is as these things tend to do, gathering pace - but in the absence of a clear, strong, successor, as someone who undeniably had the support of the electorate when he led his party to a huge victory only a few years ago, who got us through Brexit and the pandemic, and is a leader on the world stage, that would be tantamount to throwing this country under a bus - and all for what? A piece of birthday cake and a dirty, drunken old devil who can't keep his hands off men - allegedly.
Is that really what it's all about? Of course it isn't - but if his enemies shout loudly enough and listeners are stupid enough to be taken in by it - and they are - it serves to obfuscate the real reason. He isn’t embarrassing this country, as someone suggested. They are.
Like Khandro, I think this is about Brexit - the plotting goes deep as does the spite - and I strongly suspect that the moment he goes - if he goes - moves will be made in any way possible to shoehorn this country back into the grip of the EU. There are dirty deeds afoot here - and I don't mean from any perverted member of the Carlton Club.
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/uk-news/brexit-remain-bias-civil-servants-b2115533.html
The foul language used against him will doubtless continue to be blithely bandied around because few can see further than the noses. Personally, I wouldn’t blame him if he does choose the quiet life and go. Then it will all be someone else's problem. Ours.