Originally Posted by Chris

TBH I think all anyone wants is for you to give some account of your absolute faith that Boris would weather this storm, in the light of the events of the past 36 hours. For some reason you felt confident to make ever more assertive and absolute predictions about his survival (someone quoted a selection of them earlier), even as everyone else - including some very long, long-term Conservative voters like me - could see the writing was on the wall and it was only a matter of when, not if.

It looks increasingly like you felt obliged to dig your heels in just because someone disagreed with you and not because your view was grounded in any attempt at analysis of the situation.