History judges you at the end, but when that end comes is key: if Churchill had died in 1939, he would be thought a disaster; meanwhile Jeremy Hunt's stock rises but he will never be PM
Eliot, I enjoy your historical surveys with their unexpected nuggets of information (e.g. Andrew Marr was a Maoist at university!) but dragging the Virgin Mary into a column on Winston Churchill and Jeremy Hunt! WTF!
Other parts of uk have their own dynamic. And driven in part at least by different forces and pressures.
If Starmer gets in and luck is on his side, no more wars, pandemics or global recessions, and lab dont commit publuc sepuku again, he can be PM for two full terms. Not sure if lab is capable of doing that, its own internal divisions are suppressed in common goal winning power. Once in, the old splits will come to surface.
Eliot, I enjoy your historical surveys with their unexpected nuggets of information (e.g. Andrew Marr was a Maoist at university!) but dragging the Virgin Mary into a column on Winston Churchill and Jeremy Hunt! WTF!
I’m sure she can cope slumming it. She’s seen it all before.
Tories are doomed and rightly so.
Theyve behaved appallingly.
Treated public with utter contempt.
Lab arent much better.
In England thats the end.
Other parts of uk have their own dynamic. And driven in part at least by different forces and pressures.
If Starmer gets in and luck is on his side, no more wars, pandemics or global recessions, and lab dont commit publuc sepuku again, he can be PM for two full terms. Not sure if lab is capable of doing that, its own internal divisions are suppressed in common goal winning power. Once in, the old splits will come to surface.