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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Kevin Maguire

'Odds shortening for Labour Government as folks taken for fools eventually revolt'

David Cameron : Failed spectacularly and quit humiliated.

Theresa May : Out of her depth and forced to resign humbled.

Boris Johnson : Shamelessly lying and smearing to avoid Cameron and May’s fate.

Three successive Conservative Prime Ministers. Three consecutive disastrous Conservative PMs.

Replacing Johnson with a fourth would ditch a cynical charlatan obviously deserving the boot.

But the real problem isn’t who sits in No 10 but the Conservative Party itself, a political organisation incapable of governing Britain competently and fairly.

Three flops in a dozen years, arguably the worst troika to occupy Downing Street in history, is a damning record.

Vultures are circling over the Primate Minister who quoted monkey Rafiki (Andrew Parsons CCHQ / Parsons Media)

Cameron’s cuts and austerity inflicted pain, choked economic growth, piled up debt and squeezed the life out of the NHS before he lost Europe in a backfiring tactical referendum.

May played a bad hand badly, fumbled a needless General Election and lacked the skills to keep together a disintegrating party.

And it’s touch-and-go whether Johnson, by far the most contemptible of the trio, survives with even the charlatan’s praetorians darkly whispering he’s finished should the lockdown reveller be handed a fixed penalty notice for brazenly breaking the law.

Vultures are circling over the Primate Minister who quoted monkey Rafiki in The Lion King to bemused Downing Street staff.

Frantically ringing Tory MPs, he’s terrified 54 will write letters demanding a leadership contest.

The Jimmy Savile smear against Keir Starmer blowing up in Johnson’s face represents a con man losing his touch.

Theresa May was out of her depth and forced to resign humbled (AFP via Getty Images)
David Cameron failed spectacularly and quit humiliated (Ian Vogler / Daily Mirror)

In the past he’d throw a grenade to create a diversion. Now it rolls back to mortally wound him.

Plummeting living standards, tax rises, rocketing inflation, battered public services, rising crime, sleaze, corruption and all those party lies are owned by the Conservative Government, not just Johnson.

Standing somebody else on No 10’s steps mightn’t do it again for the Conservatives after four General Elections.

Increasingly people want genuine change instead of more of the same.

Which is why the odds are shortening on a fifth election producing a new Government, Labour returning to power.

Folk mistreated and taken for fools eventually revolt.

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