BORIS Johnson gave his final speech as prime minister this morning, a typically self-aggrandising oration in which Johnson took the credit for the hard work of NHS workers and displayed not a shred of remorse for the lies, bad behaviour and law-breaking which led to his downfall. Instead, he took a pop at Conservative MPs for “changing the rules” as though he himself had not cheerfully ignored, undermined or changed any rule that he found inconvenienced his entitled behaviour.

Of course it wouldn't have been a Johnson speech without an “Oh look at me I'm so erudite” classic reference, and Johnson obliged by saying that he would return to his plough like Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, the Roman general and dictator who left Rome to work on his farm, but who later returned to power in order to save the Roman upper classes from a rebellion of the lower classes. How very Tory.

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It was seen as a clear hint that Johnson has not abandoned hopes of a return to power, despite his assertions that he would fully support Liz Truss. It's not the first time Johnson has name checked Cincinnatus, for all his performative erudition, Johnson has a very limited repertoire. Johnson also mentioned Cincinnatus in his final speech as London Mayor when he was asked if he intended to seek the Prime Minister's job.

Johnson also mentioned how “strong” the union was, and claimed that those seeking to break it up would never succeed, which is the usual evidence free bluster we expect from a Conservative, but those who are doing most to break up the Union are the Conservatives themselves, Johnson and his successor foremost amongst them, at every turn they have shown Scots that Scottish democracy cannot be safe as long as they are in power at Westminster.

However, on that note it is important to point out that the Labour Party, the so-called people's party, has condemned itself with its silence over reports that the new Prime Minister plans to trash the long accepted rules of voting in the UK in order to create a series of undemocratic artificially high barriers to Scottish independence. It's not just the Conservatives who are a threat to Scottish democracy.

The current big threat to our democracy went to Balmoral today in order to be officially appointed as Prime Minister. Liz Truss is now on her way back to London and will reveal her new cabinet and her plans for tackling the looming catastrophe in energy prices. Truss has known for several weeks that she was likely to win the leadership so she has had plenty of time to plan what she's going to do in her first weeks in office, although she also had several weeks to prepare a short acceptance speech to set the stage for her leadership when her widely forecast victory was announced by the chair of the Conservative 1922 Committee, yet she delivered a brief and robotic collection of uninspiring slogans that seemed to have been culled from the blurbs of the management books you find in airport bookshops, so the signs are not great.

There are reports that despite the unexpected narrowness of her victory, Truss intends to appoint a cabinet of loyalists, which will do nothing to heal the divisions within a deeply fractured Conservative party and even less to reach out to that large segment of public opinion which is less than enamoured with Tory rule. We are in for the most right-wing government in history, which has the potential to do untold damage before it finally falls. Truss may enjoy a brief boost in the polls once her rumoured plan to freeze energy prices is unveiled - if that is indeed what she intends to do - but it is likely to be short lived as the full horrors of her government become apparent.

We are not just in for a full frontal assault on democracy in Scotland but also a trade war with the EU over the Northern Irish Protocol, an attack on employment rights and environmental safeguards, a renewed emphasis on fracking and gas and oil extraction while obstacles are placed in the way of the development of renewable energy resources, the undermining of civil liberties and the rights of trade unions, the further demonisation of migrants, and petrol being poured on the fires of the culture wars to provide a distraction. Johnson knows all this too, which is why he harbours hopes of returning to power like a Roman statesman, in order to save the ruling classes from the anger of the populace.

In his final speech, Johnson told his fractured party that it was time for politics to be over, but in reality, politics are very far from over. They are about to get going with a renewed intensity.