Johnson is quite the figure. Many of us Americans compare him to Donald Trump, but I think that while certain resemblances go beyond superficial, Johnson is quite his own very English, Etonian phenomenon.

Speaking of the moral framework, I don’t know if you followed the rather charming Marsh Family Singers as they entertained Britain with parody songs about life during lockdown. The paterfamilias is a professor of history at the University of Kent, and both he and his wife (and all their children) are more than usually musically talented.

They went viral on YouTube a couple years ago with a parody from Les Miz and then produced a series of “from their living rooms in their pajamas” musical commentaries about lockdown from the perspective of a typical English family. Absolutely apolitical, mostly positive, always sweet and entertaining.

They did a couple television specials and keep growing in popularity.

In the last few weeks, however, they have done two explicitly political parodies skewering Boris Johnson. “We’ll Have to Wait for Sue Grey’s Inquiry” is as delightfully entertaining as all their work, but it’s different in its cutting tone. Professor Marsh later explained that Boris Johnson’s unapologetic immorality makes his work as a father of young children very difficult. He’s trying to raise them to value decency and honesty while they watch the leader of their nation behave in an opposite manner. He wrote “Sue Grey’s Inquiry" based on questions his 9-year-old asked him.

The video went viral, and the family received many more comments than usual, uniformly positive from across the UK political spectrum.

While the subject of the music video is not explicitly religious, and does not breach the British custom of avoiding discussing religious belief in public, it is nevertheless a remarkable (and frightfully clever) statement about morality and truthfulness, and about the British public’s growing weariness with Johnson.