There is much comment on social media, and in the newspapers, about the disastrous start of the Labour government in the UK. Surely, they say, Keir Starmer’s government cannot last – he will have to resign.
Unhappily, Keir Starmer will not resign, and over the next 4 ½ years or so his government will hasten the UK towards catastrophe. The UK will be weaker, poorer, sicker, more dangerous, more divided, and wounded on pretty much any metric that you care to choose.
But it could be worse. It was worse in 1066 when, owing to the treachery of King Harold’s brother Tostig[1], the country was invaded by that thug, William of Normandy. That invasion plunged the country into, not 4 years but some 400 years of decline and misery.
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