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Chan island wrote:

Does Forest have any strong opinions about that vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson last night? He survived, but that vote against him is so great that his premiership is crippled now.

Even though he did survive, the votes against him were so significant that he should resign if he has any ounce of honour left in his body (which is considerably unlikely). Just because it's the right thing to do doesn't mean he'll do it, unfortunately.

Ownzone wrote:

We had a similar case in The Netherlands where Rutte keeps stumbling from one incident to the next but because there is no "viable alternative" and the mistakes do not directly affect a lot of people he is still at his position. During any other time period both of them would have been sent packing a long time ago.
The (larger) problem with this is that for an increasing part of the population even non-viable political and even non-democratic alternatives can become viable alternatives this way. People are increasingly fed-up with the political puppet shows without them dealing (and solving) mayor underlying problems.

This also reminds me of a very similar situation in my province of good ol' Ontario. We recently had an election and the incumbent premier Doug Ford and his conservatives got re-elected with a larger majority this time around, even though he managed to:

-oversee the deaths of tens of thousands of seniors in long-term care homes that were run on a for-profit basis and not even acknowledge or apologize for them
-have over 36 freaking members of his own party be invested in multiple houses that they do not live in in the GTA "without him knowing"
-have 5 members of his own party use funds donated to their local riding associations to buy houses
-bump a budget to the day before the election was called so no one would have to see what was inside it
-refuse to release documents that told his ministers what they're jobs were at the start of his government to the public, even though every single Prime Minister and Premier in the history of this country has done so
-refuse to absolutely anything about the Ottawa occupation for 3 god damn weeks until the federal police had to get involved

The list goes on. The opposition parties had a prime opportunity to hammer him with all of these scandals, but they didn't and ended up being penalized for it.