It can get worse

Johnson is at last on the way out. And Johnson was awful: a dishonest, incompetent, narcissist who was and is quite willing to sacrifice anything at all on the altar of his own glorification. A man caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, who has probably destroyed the tory party and who has at least badly damaged and possibly destroyed democracy in the UK, and perhaps the UK itself.

But that's all he was: Johnson was simply a machine for making more Johnson. For him nothing else mattered – nothing else matters – than increasing the glory and power of Johnson. For Johnson other people do not really exist other than to serve the goal of increasing Johnson. He is simply a parasite whose only purpose is to make more of itself, at any cost to its host.

That's not the worst thing that could happen. The wreckage of the tory party, like the wreckage of the republican party in the US, is busily breeding really awful people. People who actively want to burn the future by doing nothing, or less than nothing, about climate change, people who actively want to remove women's rights over their own bodies, people who are explicitly racist.

We could get one of those people. That would be bad.