Accumulating scandals broke Boris Johnson’s Teflon surface – the “Pincher by name and nature” quip was a fatal mistake

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson the Teflon surface had already become famous. No dirt seemed to stick to Johnson, but he repeatedly survived scandals that any other British politician would have fallen into.

In the end, the limit came to Johnson as well, and he was inclined to announce that he was ready to resign as prime minister in the fall.

The Conservatives, under Johnson’s leadership, recently suffered a number of stinging electoral defeats, both in local elections and in general parliamentary elections. Voting areas known as safe conservative areas chose the rival party’s candidate.

Inflation has taken off in Britain and the cost of living is at a level that has driven many Britons to desperate means of saving. In Brittimedia (you switch to another service) for example, it was reported in the spring about a retired woman who sits on the bus all day to keep warm, because she can no longer afford to heat her home.

Boris Johnson acknowledged the pensioner woman’s sad story by saying that keeping warm on the bus is possible thanks to the free bus card given to the elderly by his government.

Inappropriate joking and outright lying were indeed the prime minister’s answers to many embarrassing questions.

Johnson was repeatedly caught giving false explanations, which he later dismissed as damage or false memories.

He resorted to such an explanation, for example, in connection with the so-called partygate. Boris Johnson and his wife were ordered by the police Carrie Johnson as well as numerous prime minister’s aides to pay fines for parties in the official residence that violated corona restrictions.

The investigation into the matter found, for example, photographs of parties that the Prime Minister did not remember attending.

The people who obediently followed the strict corona restrictions were enraged that the prime minister and his entourage considered themselves above the common rules. Even this uproar was still not enough to bring down Johnson.

During Johnson’s prime ministership, the heap was constantly accumulating as well various sex scandals (you switch to another service). Although Johnson himself did not participate in them, the constant cases of sloppiness by conservative politicians and their downplaying or cover-up sparked a growing anger towards the prime minister.

This year alone, one conservative member of parliament has had to resign after being convicted of abusing a 15-year-old boy, another after watching porn on his cell phone in the parliament’s sitting room, a third has been suspended from his job due to suspicion of rape, and a fourth due to a harassment investigation.

In the end, the most recent of the scandals seems to have been the decisive scratch that fatally damaged Johnson’s Teflon surface.

At the end of June to Brititmedia (you will switch to another service) news spread that a drunken Conservative MP Christopher Pincher had molested two men at a private club in London. As a result of the uproar, Pincher resigned as “whip” responsible for group discipline in the Conservative parliamentary group.

However, the harassment scandal was not Pincher’s first. He had committed similar acts before, but still received new tasks from the conservative party.

True to his style, Boris Johnson first denied that he was aware of Pincher’s behavior, but then had to admit that this was not the case. Allegations spread to the public that Johnson had repeatedly belittled Pincher’s behavior and joked about it.

After the Pincher case escalated, the demands for Johnson’s resignation intensified, and now numerous conservatives who have remained loyal for a long time also joined. For a long time, Johnson seemed to believe that he would come out of this commotion as a winner, but on Thursday he finally had to admit defeat and announce his resignation. However, he intends to remain as prime minister until the autumn.