I’m sympathetic to this stuff, because it really is quite hard to break a system that has been busting its arse to keep the Tories in power for the whole of the last decade. But I do find it weird that none of these excuses - and that’s what they are - has applied until now.
She’s a councillor but I’m enjoying the return to the pundit shrug, which is what we get when everyone agrees thing (x) will surely happen, and then it doesn’t. If I kept getting it wrong at my work and my bosses were pleased with my performance, I’d ask what exactly my job was.
How many Sensible Centrist wheezes are going to burst like a tossed piss balloon against the brick wall of public indifference? Recent history suggests mountains will crumble into the sea before any of these people change their behaviour or their minds.
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