It shows that British politics is *not real*, that it is just a dumb soap opera in which some of the silliest people in the country can completely rewrite the story arc without the characters noticing or commenting on it at any time they like, just by deciding that they want to.
The press installing an honest-to-god moron as PM via five months of screaming threats and propaganda, then annihilating him even quicker with dumb scandals they knew about all along, does not show that politics is capricious and volatile. It shows it is *insulting horseshit*.
The reason the press have effortlessly destroyed Johnson overnight is that he had absolutely nothing - no skills, no ideas, not even proper friends - except the overwhelming backing of the British press. When they withdrew that he was immediately naked, cupping his ballsack.
@flying_rodent All of this has been fairly predictable, too? I mean the mechanism rather than the actual offence. It’s as predictable as the media heralding the successor as the messiah (until s/he isn’t) and all the dirt they have on Starmer coming to light six months before next election