11 June—So former UK PM Boris Johnson is now a former UK MP. To expand the initialisms, UK is the United Kingdom—like the United States but smaller in all respects, even less united, and not bound by a written constitution; PM is the Prime Minister—leader of his or her party at any given time through style, wile, and guile, who hopes to lead the country through style, wile, and guile; MP is a Member of Parliament—like an MC, a Congressman, but in all the wrong ways.

To refresh your memory, Boris Johnson is the New York City-born, briefly Connecticut-resident natural blonde who served as UK PM from July 2019 through last September, when he resigned for a portmanteau of ethics reasons. Well, Boris was forced to resign by his own party. Kind of like Richard Nixon.

Boris Johnson just resigned his seat in the House of Commons for essentially the same ethics reasons, but only after being told he’d be “sanctioned” for misleading Parliament over what’s cleverly being called “partygate” at No. 10 Downing Street.

The facts about the wild times at No. 10 during the lock-down induced by the COVID panic—instituted by the Tory government and PM Boris himself, mind you—aren’t in dispute. It’s the interpretation. Of course.

Boris has always maintained that the late-night soirées, booze-fests, and “wine-time Fridays” were legitimate “work events.” Why not? Why shouldn’t they have been? Why must work events—whatever they may be—always be tedious?

Problem is, Boris Johnson’s colleagues in Commons don’t agree with him. What really irks them, I’d venture, is that he deliberately lied to them. Reminds me of the scandal in the early sixties when John Profumo, MP, Privy Councillor, and Secretary of State for War (and married to actress Valerie Hobson), had it off with Christine Keeler, who was also having it off with a Soviet naval attaché. (Kind of like Arthur Schnitzler’s “La Ronde.”)

Profumo denied his dalliance and lied to the House of Commons. So of course he was forced to resign. A doggerel making the rounds at the time ended, “It’s okay to lie with Christine, but to lie in the House is obscene.” That says it all.

Back to Boris, then, he’s not taking his disgrace like a man. Rather, he’s accusing his accusers of conducting a “witch hunt” and a “kangaroo court” to “drive me out of Parliament.”

And that reminds me of another New York City-born blonde (but he’s a bottle-blonde), former national leader who disgraced himself while in office. Facts not in dispute. Insists he did nothing wrong. Accuses his accusers of doing everything to screw him. And each is currently on his third wife.

Who can that be? One guess. And you must be thinking: Since Boris meets the constitutional criteria, could he be our third President Johnson? Why not . . .