Democracy demands a second vote - By their friends shall ye know them

So, how many generals can a cause lose before the cause itself is lost? 

First Boris Johnson, the Tadhg an dá thaobh who was a decisive factor in achieving a Leave vote in Britain, withdrew from the race to succeed British prime minister David Cameron because he was betrayed by his colleague Michael Gove even though every move, every step taken by Johnson in this deepening and dangerous farce was dictated by his visceral ambition to be prime minister.

Mr Johnson’s political career has ended in shame and defeat but his Bullingdon Club bombast, his absolute indifference to the idea of scruples or the wisdom of an occasional silence means that, as late as yesterday, he was trying to shape events he could not find the backbone to confront. Hypocrisy and cowardice all a splutter under his trademark prop, a blond bird’s nest. Good riddance.