The election of Boris Johnson tells us everything we need to know about the Conservative Party

The Tories are still very much the nasty party and their new leader reaffirms that

Boris Johnson has been elected leader of the Conservative Party and with that, he is now the UK Prime Minister. Where we Brits could once mock the Americans for their President, we too now have a prejudiced and inept clown leading the country.

I always thought Johnson could have become leader of the Conservative Party at a time when the Tories were in electoral purgatory; the same place they’re already expeditiously en route to. But becoming Prime Minister was another matter that I hoped Tory members might be more cautious towards should he ever make it to a run-off for the leadership while they were in government.

Had the Conservative Party been in opposition, with nothing to lose and desperate for a personality, rather than an actual politician, Tory MPs and members might have thought they’d allow him to feel like Billy Big Balls at a time when it couldn’t have much adverse impact. “Why not allow BoJo to become leader?”, his Etonian chums would suggest. “Surely it can’t do any harm if we’re even further away from government than Iain Duncan Smith was?”

However, the present day reality is that Boris can do much harm. And those same Etonian chums, and the party membership, have facilitated that reality in allowing him to become Prime…