The antics of the political class - and I include the Government and Her Majesty's Opposition in this - are a wonder to behold.
You have never seen such a craven display of naked self-interest. It's beyond Trumpian. He, at least, isn't formally committed to doing something that has a non-zero chance of burning the American economy to the ground.
The knives are out for May, though. If she's still in the job on Friday, I will be surprised. What's worse, though, is that Corbyn is safe. He is unelectable - in the face of the worst campaign by the worst government of any flavour in living memory, he managed to achieve a Conservative government, but now with added DUP.
Labour needs to put Keir Starmer in the top job, consigning Corbyn, McDonnell and Abbott to the back benches - but this will not happen, because the Labour Party (not the PLP) is content to have massive principles and not have any way of implementing them. Labour wants to believe that the Overton window has shifted leftwards in UK politics, and maybe it has - but we are a centrist country. Blair understood that, and along with a competent front bench, won three elections on the bounce.
tl;dr: we're fucked because the Conservatives are shit and Labour are also shit.
You have never seen such a craven display of naked self-interest. It's beyond Trumpian. He, at least, isn't formally committed to doing something that has a non-zero chance of burning the American economy to the ground.
The knives are out for May, though. If she's still in the job on Friday, I will be surprised. What's worse, though, is that Corbyn is safe. He is unelectable - in the face of the worst campaign by the worst government of any flavour in living memory, he managed to achieve a Conservative government, but now with added DUP.
Labour needs to put Keir Starmer in the top job, consigning Corbyn, McDonnell and Abbott to the back benches - but this will not happen, because the Labour Party (not the PLP) is content to have massive principles and not have any way of implementing them. Labour wants to believe that the Overton window has shifted leftwards in UK politics, and maybe it has - but we are a centrist country. Blair understood that, and along with a competent front bench, won three elections on the bounce.
tl;dr: we're fucked because the Conservatives are shit and Labour are also shit.