“Politicians, like priests, will always make their easiest converts among “the weak, the unlucky, the resentful, the fearful and the poor”. We should care for these people, of course we should, but not always for their views.” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-populist-tory-party-has-a-lie-at-its-heart-lpxtds5h7

The problem is not so much Starmer as his boss, the Labour Party.

I have great admiration for many of the Party’s MPs but the context in which they operate is one of a never ending, exhausting, bitter political in fight leading to bad policies to appease the unwise.

As for Johnson.

“There’s no spray-on defeat for this man. Why do we think the voters haven’t yet cottoned on? They have. And they aren’t bothered. When you keep telling people something and they don’t seem to take any notice,

...”it’s either because they don’t want to know or they know already and don’t care. There’s no point in holding Johnson to some moral standard to which he has never pretended. Better and perhaps more constructive to hold him to what he has pretended:....

Hold him to his own account

“that Tory government can rescue those parts of Britain that have sunk, while others have risen. It can’t, or won’t, be done”

Will they even care then? Or will they give him another free pass like a beaten wife.?

In politics there is a market in anxiety and a market in optimism. The market in anxiety is the easiest to capture. And this week the Conservative party consolidated its old on the disappointed, the nostalgic & the fearful.

“A party that pitches to the angry or the resentful soon begins to look like them”.