"Boris Johnson, the party is over!"

What is the sensational defeat of a conservative candidate in the rural district of England leads to

The English voters sent a black label to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the benefits of a British parliament deputy from the North Shropshire district in the west of the Middle Lands of England.

In this rural district, conservatives felt confident for almost 200 years. In 2016, the majority there supported Brexit, and in 2019 their candidate won with an advantage of 23 thousand votes (about 80 thousand voters in the district). But yesterday, at the benefits of the country's parliament, the candidate from the ruling party lost his advantage and lagged behind the liberal democrat by almost 6 thousand votes.

The defeat in Schropshire does not change the alignment of forces in the House of Commons, where the conservatives have a majority with an advantage of about 80 votes, and in general the ruling party often loses intermediate elections. But observers emphasize that now the leadership of Boris Johnson will be called into question in his own party. Since November, there has been talk that the deputies of Tory are sent letters about distrust to the prime minister to the Inter-Party Committee. To conduct a vote about distrust, it is necessary that such letters write 15 percent of the deputies of Tory, only 54 letters. While this figure is not reached, the number and authorship of letters remain strictly confidential information.

Voting in Schropshire - “crushing defeat”, “political earthquake”, only say (“Finenshl Times”, “Times”), this is a “warning shot”, others say. The influential channel Sky-News carefully emphasizes that the mood among the one-partyists "more rebellious than revolutionary." The parliament went on Christmas holidays, and the prime minister has at least three weeks to regroup his forces.

Political scientists and the press love to emphasize that the main advantage of the prime minister is in his special relations with voters. All his life Boris Johnson was accompanied by scandals, but he managed to be a “star”, from which they did not expect moral behavior.

However, recently, the press has increasingly reasoning whether the batch of the party was the one who was its "steam locomotive."

Elections in Schropshire raising the question whether his “magic” ended? Maybe the bowl of patience has already been overflowed? More than two years after the last elections, asking different people the question of why people tolerate deception, double standards, familyism, tolerance to corruption incompatible with the behavior of an ordinary British, I received the same answer: “Give a deadline, once a straw will break the back of a camel.”

At the beginning of this week, the prime minister encountered the “riot” of the deputies of his party against the plan of the fight against the outbreak of the Omikron version in the country: almost a third of the conservatives, about 100 deputies voted against. The rebellion was preceded by a continuous series of scandals, which continuously accompanied the party and personally the prime minister for the past two months.

By the way, the missions became the result of one of them. The former deputy from Northern Shropshire (Owen Paterson) was caught that he combined the functions of a parliamentarian and lobbyist. It is not known how the story would end if the government led by Johnson (in his characteristic defiant and aggressive manner) did not protect the guilty parliamentary rules that guilty up to the attempt to change the post -fact.

It is unknown again than the case would end if the scandal had not developed before the eyes of the whole world: just at that time, a two-week international summit was held in Glasgow, which was visited by the heads of hundreds of states and governments (the New Gazeta wrote about this). The inevitable attention of the press, including the world, led to the resignation of the deputy and the retreat of the government with repeated public apologies.

From this moment, the polls show that the support of conservatives is reduced, the laborists have been leading for several weeks.

And although the ratings of the middle of the parliamentary period are inconsistent for the national elections, which will be only two years later - politicians, press, voters seriously perceive and analyze the results of polls.

The Paterson case was followed by accusations against other deputies, old episodes with poorly explained orders for millions of pounds surfaced, which received firms from a close circle of government members during the pandemic, scandalous stories of the party financing in exchange for places in the House of Lords. They recalled the slippery episode of the expensive repair of the apartment of Boris Johnson on Dauning Street, for which the election commission “soldered” the conservative party, albeit a small (about 18 thousand pounds), but symbolically important.

Further - more. It was more painful than the corruption trace that the British were struck by the testimonies of several underground Christmas parties on Dauning Street last year, when the whole country was sitting in the strict quarantine and people could not only celebrate, but to say goodbye to their loved ones. The government began to deny, the press - to crush and give certificates. And the fact that the police refused to investigate last year's snow, only added indignation.

By the way, the low turnout in Schropshire (noticeably lower than two years ago) shows that it was the conservative voter, having disappointed, that did not come to vote and the case decided.

Elections in Northern Schropshire confirmed the possibility and effectiveness of the conclusion of informal packages in the districts between the Labor and liberal democrats, when some direct resources to the places where the best opportunities to shift the parliament from Tori, while others lead a quiet “training” campaign. The British, it seems, are not hunters to public pacts about the frank “division” of voters and believe that they themselves can figure it out when to vote “tactically”.

In a victorious speech, the new member of the parliament from Northern Schropshire Helen Morgan said, hinting at the failure parties to Dauning Street: “Boris Johnson, the party is over” (“The Party Is Over”). It may very well be.