Degrees of uniting people. There's the "All behind you, Winston" of the David Low cartoon. Wartime Churchill probably was the last PM to manage that, and that's probably for the b… (View Post)

He spent most of his life not being a politician, no wonder he's not much good at it. Much the same was true of Sunak. It's a fairly weird skill set you need to develop. (View Post)

Same reason we apparently need to relearn the lesson that Nazis are a bad thing. We've had getting on for seventy years of peace and health and whatnot, and come to take it as read, rather than … (View Post)

Well, we haven't had much boom since he left office, have we? (View Post)

Another version of the same thing. I'm pretty sure that a significant cause of all this is that nobody knows who is actually responsible for stuff, and that the policing of the ends of responsib… (View Post)