And yet they're lining up to do it again.
This isn't government. It's pantomime.
Starmer is hitting the biggest poll leads in history just by virtue of him and his party not being insane.
Two good years, and for sure they could recover.
But they're not going to be good years.
They're going to be horrible.
The Tories' best move right now is to pick a leader who can soften the fall.
Johnson is the exact opposite of that.
He'll only make it worse.
It's both, with the harm dialed up to 11 by dint of unbelievable idiocy.
The only saving grace is Truss falling face-down on the starting line.
The swing to Labour in the polls is unprecedented. She has destroyed any remaining notion of the Tories as the party of prudent finance.
As much as I see no good reasons justifying Russia's war on Ukraine, I kinda feel like it's self-defeating to treat everyone who dissents as if they're evil or stupid.
We need dissent, on every issue, or else we have no grounds for thinking any consensus view is reliable.
I said almost exactly this to a friend the other day.
Of the eight PMs I remember, while there have been none that I could say I liked, Truss is the first where I struggle to understand what it is about her that appeals (other than not being Boris or Rishi).
Thatcher was driven, forthright...
It's a matter of priorities.
The unfairness of the monarchic element of our constitution is the least of our problems.
Which is one reason why Liz was so popular.
She recognised the absolute importance of staying in her lane, avoiding anything that would compromise her constitutional...
Truss is a political lightweight.
She has no base of popular support in the country.
She has the thinnest mandate to govern of any PM in living memory.
She's the worst orator we've had as PM in living memory.
She has no meaningful conviction or vision about anything that I can discern.
The...
On average, Europe's monarchies are better governed than its republics.
And not by a small margin.
Most of the causality here is probably negative: they remain monarchies because they've been governed well enough that there hasn't been the impetus for a republican revolution.
For those of us...
This is the best argument against monarchy.
It isn't remotely fair and it sets a precedent for unfairness.
And if fairness was all that mattered when constituting a state, I'd agree that any form of monarchy would be abominable.
Monarchy is the one form of aristocratic hierarchy I'm comfortable keeping.
As a constitutional device it benefits our democracy by weakening the symbolic power of whoever is our political leader at any given moment.
If not for monarchy, Liz Truss would now be the head of our nation.
As much...
I'm not a straight down the line Labour supporter. I've voted Lib Dem and Green on several occasions based on local electoral dynamics, and refused to vote Labour at all for several years after the invasion of Iraq. I did, however, vote Labour in 2017 despite having huge reservations about...
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