Let us hope so. Boris isn’t exactly brimming over with experience at managing large, complex organizations with refractory employees. I expect Red Ken and his predecessors have left the government of Metropolitan London full of left-wing radicals, cranks, and crooks; it’s the lefty MO. They are likely to try to sabotage anything Boris does.

If he tries to do much. I always got the impression that Boris was a bit of a wet. Well it’s up to the Brits. Make your choices and live with them. I do hope Boris can summon up the backbone to oppose the jihadists, whether violent ones or insinuating ones (the synergy of these two groups is their version of “nice cop, mean cop”). Much of the rest of Britain seems to be silently surrendering. Of course much of our own government seems to be also. Feh.