Re: I think he's probably better than the last two, and possibly the last three
Er, seriously? Boris Johnson, a man blatantly unfit to be Prime Minister, was made PM while she was still very much alive.
Liz Truss, a woman even more grossly unfit for the position (*) not only replaced him, but her meeting with Liz Truss where she was made to go through the formality of *asking* her to form a government was pretty much the last thing she did, just two days before she died.
If she had any real power, she'd have lopped Truss's head off- "Highlander" style (**)- even then.
Joking aside, and even as an anti-monarchist, I'm not criticising the Queen here for doing what she was required to do as a figurehead. I'm criticising the self-reassuring idea that she had any real power or that things somehow got worse *after* she died for that reason.
Seriously, Liz fucking Truss.
(*) I've said before and I'll say again that- if anything- it's *more* disturbing with hindsight- only after she was kicked out- that Truss ever became PM in the first place. In some ways, the fact that she so comprehensively fouled up *and* quite so quickly may in time be seen as a dodged bullet- a very expensive mistake, to be sure, but one that ultimately made clear to her "fellow" Tories that they had to get rid of her- if only to save their own craven little necks- and stopped her causing any further and more long-lasting damage.
(**) Would have been fantastically appropriate given that Truss was summoned to the Queen's Highland retreat at Balmoral. The meeting might then have gone something like this, if you can imagine Queen Elizabeth in the role of Kurgan.