The Downing Street squatter has downed tools and hopped off to Greece to top up his tan.
Now that Boris Johnson is preparing to leave office, he has clearly decided his holiday plans are more important than the cost-of-living crisis that is crippling households.
Before he was pushed out of office, Johnson was never really in control of events.
He didn’t give a stuff about working people except when it came to grandiose schemes that were never going to come to anything, like a tunnel to Northern Ireland or a bridge across the Thames with his name on it.
But today we see pictures of him on the beach grinning like a man without a care in the world – not even concealing his contempt for the mugs back home.
As we are quickly learning in crisis-hit Britain, the Tories are simply unable to take the radical steps needed to help people cope with soaring energy bills and inflation.
The infrastructure of the country, from the Passport Office that cannot issue passports to the reservoirs that have run dry, or the airports that cannot function properly, has been trashed by austerity, under-investment and brazen profiteering.
Our public utilities have been cash starved or sold off to the Tories’ pals in the City of London.
While Boris is in the Med, the two chancers battling it out to replace him are equally bereft of ideas.
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss look like they will be even more hopeless than Boris – if their soul-destroying leadership contest is anything to go by.
Meanwhile, life gets worse for ordinary Scots trying to cope with inflation and soaring energy bills.
The revelations we carry today about generation rent not being able to pay for both their accommodation and their food are a frightening portent of things to come.
Link Housing, which rents out 15,000 homes across Scotland, has told us of a 300% increase in desperate Scots seeking emergency bail-outs this year so far because they can’t pay rent and bills.
Keir Starmer is right to say that it is not just the very poor who will feel the effects of this harsh winter.
Households across the land are wondering just how they will cope as average energy bills reach £5456 a year.
We need a government to take action now to avert a winter disaster, by at least adopting Labour’s demands for both an energy price cap freeze and in Scotland a rent freeze in the social housing sector.
What we don’t need is a lame duck Prime Minister soaking up the sun while voters face a cold, cold winter.
Johnson’s time in charge of this country has been a farce – and is ending as a Greek Tragedy.
