It started so well. Just over 12 months ago the adults were back in charge. Rishi Sunak managed to recover from some of the economic damage that his predecessor had inflicted in her crazy crazy few short weeks. He was ably assisted by Jeremy Hunt, his Chancellor of the Exchequer. So the New year started with some hope that perhaps Rishi might pull off the recovery of the Conservative Party and Windsor Framework reinforced the notion of serious people doing serious work. Since then? Well politics is, as a famous political operator put it….
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.
This week saw a bizarre press conference when the Prime Minister tried to look tough and ended up just looking like a truculent teenager. I think Ian Hislop summed it up the best. Our current Prime Minister doesn’t understand politics.
The much quoted “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” does seem more and more apt with every passing day.
I have no idea whether a new Labour government would be that much better than this lot of third rate (well I’m really not sure what the collective noun for our collapsing clown wagon of a leadership might be) government other than to say it cannot be any worse.
One final thought. Guess who is next at the COVID enquiry…
Footnote:
Just when I thought we had seen it all I have just read a theory, in a national newspaper not some crackpot blog (kettle calling the pot black?), that this is all part of a really cunning plan that if or when this all falls apart in Parliament then Rishi could call an early election with one issue “Get Rwanda Done”. Crazy I know but somehow I can see them think this might work. Baldrick would be proud.
Simon's Blog 
You can make a perfectly sound argument that Boris Johnson and Liz Truss did not engage with the Establishment and so had to go… and Rishi Sunak appeared as a safe pair of hands. Unfortunately being a safe pair of hands is not sufficient when the electorate are dissatisfied with the Establishment (who apparently want uncontrolled immigration, the repeal of Brexit, and possibly greater identity politics – all without any consultation).
Assuming that Keir Starmer is the next PM he too has been presenting himself as a safe pair of hands. That might win over the Establishment but it won’t satisfy an already dissatisfied electorate or the more leftish wing of the Labour party.
We live in interesting times.