Curious Conservative 'logic'

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The ‘leader’ of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, announced last week that he had withdrawn his letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister because, he said, “the middle of an international crisis is not the time to be discussing resignations”. His ‘logic’ is curious, to say the least, given that his statement shows no indication that he has changed his mind about the main issue, which is that Boris Johnson is utterly unfit to hold the job. Faced with a major international crisis, surely the need to ensure that the man at the helm is up to the job increases rather than reduces. The argument that a proven liar who, whenever he’s under pressure (and often when he isn’t) says the first thing that comes into his head, even if it's the opposite of what he said yesterday, is the best person to establish enough trust to negotiate with friends and enemies alike is a very strange one. ‘Stability’ in a crisis is a good thing, of course – but who in his or her right mind would apply the label ‘stable’ to a government led by a man who his former close confidant describes as being like a shopping trolley with defective wheels which lurches unpredictably from side to side? Insisting that we should stick with an unpredictable Johnson to face up to the even more dangerously unpredictable Putin defies all normal logic. It makes sense only if Ross believes that any conceivable Tory replacement would be even worse. Oh, hold on, perhaps he has a point after all...