“Nothing works in this country anymore,” has become a fashionable plaint. “Everything is broken.” Yes, but by whom? The answer, self-evidently, is: by the political class. An arrogant, entitled, instinctively authoritarian, but woefully incompetent, self-selecting pseudo-elite has hijacked the commanding heights in all our institutions, with results that we all see. The establishment religion is Net Zero, an obvious fantasy, in pursuit of which our virtue-signalling politicians are taxing us beyond a sustainable level, damaging our entire economic infrastructure and impoverishing ordinary citizens. Since imminent elections focus political minds, we have just witnessed Rishi Sunak offering a few desperate concessions on Net Zero – the ban on sales of petrol and diesel cars postponed to 2035, ditto a ban on new oil and gas boilers, no tax on meat (only a totalitarian government would even have considered it) – kicking the can down the road when, instead, the can should be sent to the crusher.
Defence of the realm is unlikely to win Sunak re-election
National security and defence are notoriously low down on the electorate’s agenda. Although that is slowly shifting, the Tories shouldn’t count on it.
