The installation of Boris Johnson as UK Prime Minister was a unique event in my lifetime - a new and truly popular Conservative leader. But what about Mrs Thatcher? [I hear the squeals, but she was initially extremely unpopular and only achieved popular approval courtesy of a certain Generalissimo named Galtieri.]
And, let's be honest, what's not to like?
A big, bouncy, blonde in No 10 is surely a welcome change from the humourless inhabitants that we have had the misfortune to have govern us in recent times. But it is this very popularity that now threatens him.
The forces are rallied and ranged in their lines of attack, and the suddenly sainted Scottish Judiciary, having declared open season on the British PM, have allowed the BBC to abandon all pretence of impartiality and join those clamouring for Johnson's head. Yet the northern judges are themselves guilty of the most egregious projection we have witnessed in many years, claiming the government are unlawfully "stymying parliament".
But just who is stymying what?
For more than three years Parliament has stymied those trying to enact the referendum result, and these 'judges' are now complicit in that criminality. With barely pause to catch their collective breath, they have branded the British PM a liar and usurper of parliamentary privilege and they have attempted to foment constitutional upheaval. If they really believed the PM was guilty as they charge, they should demand that Parliament be dissolved and a General Election called, but of course, that is not on their agenda.
Where does this all end, with Brexit on 31st October as planned, or a further extension or worse?
We shall have to wait and see, but one thing is becoming very clear, the opposition to the people's decision is now so entrenched and unwilling to accept anything less than capitulation and Remain, that only an immediate and absolute clean break will be workable, when the time comes.
Anything less, any sort of slow or 'soft' Brexit will be met with such obstruction and institutional malevolence, that progress will be impossible and we will be confined in a perpetual state of conflict until we limp out, or are returned to the EU, weakened and divided, no longer an island Nation but a chastened province, a coastal state of the European Union.
