The battle between Johnson and Corbyn will cost the people of the UK

The UK is stuck between two egos both craving the premiership, and is suffering as a result.

Johnson just wants to be prime minister to satisfy his own ambition and prove his own sense of greatness. Corbyn, I think, at least has an ideology and wants to be prime minister in order to bring around a social revolution he believes is right for us all.

Both have taken to using Brexit as a means to an end. They are both gambling with the happiness and future of millions of people in order to win a mandate to impose themselves on the country.

For Johnson, the only way he can win a real majority that will empower him to do enough to make it into the history books is by forcing Brexit to happen, and then calling an election in which he’d win back the Brexit Party’s votes. It suits Corbyn to see Brexit go ahead, on the assumption that everything will fall apart afterwards, wiping out the Tories so he can be swept to power.

For both men, it is about winning a landslide post-Brexit majority so they can act out their vision for the country. Johnson’s post-Brexit vision is possibly more benevolent, because he wants everyone to like him so he can stay in power, and can go down in history as a great prime minister. Corbyn’s is in some ways more sinister because it is…