A politico-media leadership faction whose first instinct when under the pressure of system crisis is to attack the media https://twitter.com/montie/status/1254493692137791488">https://twitter.com/montie/st...

You still have solid polling leads. You have some room for manoeuvre with a public willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

You can ignore hostile media or even better take the "tough crisis, we made mistakes, if you spot one we& #39;ll listen and work with you to solve it" line

If they read the Sunday Times then the government still has trouble on its hands. https://twitter.com/montie/status/1254508374202486786?s=20">https://twitter.com/montie/st...

Instead of seeing politics as a form of permanent warfare with cultural rivals play the game of "standing above partisanship", "everyone made mistakes, we& #39;re working hard to fix this for you" and "in it all together" in ways that neutralise criticism.

It& #39;s not rocket science