BYE BYE BORIS! YOU WERE BECOMING AS TRAGIC AS TRUMP…

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It used to be the case that Donald ducks and Boris bends it like… well, a politician.

People accuse me of being a Tory – and worse, a Boris believer.

But why would I support a liar, a kamikaze political pilot, a man who appears to be without shame, a human being who is absorbed in how the world sees him.

And over the past few days his wrinked eyes have become like orbs of stress and if it is possible for a person with a firm covering of flesh to look gaunt then Boris looks gaunt.

There is realisation in his face, realisation that he’s lied to Britain while his little parliamentary helpers have been lying to him, he’s been stabbed in the back – and in the front – and he has lashed out with vicious tallons still flashing in the waning sun of his career.

And now he is done.

But then he holed up at Downing Street, closed the curtains on the world. And watched telly.

The telly was the outside world telling him in no uncertain terms to go.

He was as arrogant and defiant and pointless as that other blond-bombshell of slight of hand and mind… President-I-won-Trump.

It is a comparison being made by senior Conservative colleagues and Tory grandee Sir Bernard Jenkin claims he told the PM: ‘You can go with some dignity or you can be forced out like Donald Trump’.

Former Cabinet minister Julian Smith also warned that the premier had seen how Donald Trump behaved over the Capitol riots after the US election, and was looking to have a ‘mini version in the UK’.

Mr Johnson’s personal approval rating has even dipped below Trump’s low point around the time of the Capitol riot on January 6, 2022.

According to YouGov, just 23 per cent of voters approve of Mr Johnson.

But how could any politician really believe he could stick his heels in and stay after:

The Chris Pincher affair

The cost of living crisis – and a tax rise

Partygate

Owen Paterson row

Trump was a showman, just like Boris … and today the show is over for both of them. But Boris has one last chance… there is dignity and honour in graciously handing over the reins of power.

Go with what dignity you have left mate.