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From best to worst Blair Cameron Sunak May Brown Starmer Johnson Truss

Wish they had an American postcode/zipcode instead. Let them try real hard right, very free market, shit and expensive healthcare, racist society and economy. No public services, no employment rights or social security. They’d run back to Redcar in 5 minutes flat,

I was told recently that at a game between West Ham and Millwall in the late 80s, the visiting Millwall fans sang through the minute’s silence for Hillsborough. They’ve done it subsequently https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-30173051.html Was also told that around that time after a West Ham v Millwall fixture that a Millwall fan died after being thrown from a moving train (don’t know if true but this person isn’t prone to hyperbole). If true, that bodes well for next season….

The NI increase being in the employers column was daft, and the CV stuff but anyone saying she’s been disastrous is indulging in hyperbole. The markets like her, look how a few sobs in the HoC made the stock market fall sharply. She’s having to make very tough decisions, as Jeremy Hunt, another quality CoE after the steaming pile of shit Kwarteng and Truss left him to clear up, did and got constant flak from the ERG and Daily Mail wankers who cheered Kwarteng and Truss in the first place.

What did he do for a living pre-referendum? Only 56 now.

Starmer was crap no doubt but the pandemic meant Boris was in office for 18 months more because the country, very divided as it is now, still rallies around in major crises.

Only just after I’d not bought the Sunday Sport in protest at David Sullivan and put a ice lolly up my arse. I’m doing better than this chap though

If you’re wondering how Donald Trump ends up being President - twice - of America, a small sample size in the behaviour of US golf galleries at Bethpage Black in September and last night at the final round of the US Open will explain some of it https://www.skysports.com/golf/video/19508/13556538/us-open-wyndham-clark-targeted-by-hecklers-at-shinnecock-hills-hes-got-no-friends-out-here

If he’s not signing a new contract then it would suit all parties. In addition to a Fernandes sell on fee, and Ramsdale departure that would be a decent start to addressing PSR. Sugawara having a good WC might get a bonus larger fee as well.

Nor has anyone else for that matter, I just see some more balanced perspectives being reflected whilst accurately describing Starmer’s lack of political judgements which is rather a fatal flaw. Bending to the left on major welfare reform is where his car left the road for me. Which is true for all PMs bar Truss. Osvaldo has his head well down the Lowe/Musk/Robinson rabbit hole. Next post will be about what a brilliant chairman of Southampton Football Club Rupert was.

It certainly didn’t with Boris. Burnham won’t as bad as that surely - anyone who has done a day’s work in their life would be an improvement on Boris - but we don’t know a lot about his intentions which is a concern.

I put him on ignore last week but people still quote him. The use of Third world sums him up, he might get a job one day where he has to travel to a third world nation for work and then he might vaguely know what term means or what it looks like in practice. The west is declining comparatively because Asia has a younger population as well as a larger one and they take a longer term view of strategy and policy. Clinton allowing China into the WTO was a sliding doors moment. Asia isn’t afraid of using migration either when it needs to and to top up supporting their older population. Japan is the exception but do people here on a widespread basis work well into their 70s like the Japanese to support a demographic similar to ours?

Which backs up what I was just saying. The public don’t like people who go into the detail and try to move the dial. It’s why the inherently more capable George Osborne was unpopular but David Cameron less so because he didn’t have the ability to really formulate effective policy (see Big Society) from ideas. And how we ended up with Boris who has never done a day’s work in his life but can pass off a good toff’s best man speech. Can you see any of the opposition - Badenoch, Davey, Farage - being any different? There was a good piece by Sunak on LinkedIn over the weekend advising Burnham to set his priorities on day 1 and within week 1 as in this turbulent political climate your capital depreciates so rapidly. The likes of Wilson, Thatcher, Blair, who all could both communicate very effectively and build the apparatus for proper policy development and strategy are rare creatures.

He will because of their members. Like Truss v Sunak in 2022, if it was down to just the MPs, it’d be Streeting probably.

Exactly this, he just isn’t a natural communicator. Good at the formal foreign policy set pieces but no real political nous which we’ve seen time and time again. Burnham or Streeting will be seen as more relatable. If Farage didn’t drink and smoke like a chimney there’s no way he’d be relatable to most people on average or lower incomes and Lowe….any sane Saints fan can put the public right on him. That’s why we had the ‘father was a toolmaker’ stuff. There’s not been an economic crisis despite the chronic impact of two wars, immigration is well down, NHS back office cut by more than 50%. His actual impact has been OK but he doesn’t resonate with the electorate, and the tabloids led by the Mail have never forgiven him for the phone hacking prosecutions even though he was entirely correct to prosecute them. Theresa May had some of the same issues, bit better politically but named the ‘Maybot’. I voted for her, didn’t vote for Kier. The electorate has to ask itself what it wants - policy detail or ability to bullshit you. Because you’re only going to get a pre-dementia Wilson, Thatcher or Blair who can do both once a generation.