They rail against a mythical force that scuppers their plans for radical change. The truth is they don’t have any, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Also sitting round it yesterday were business and energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng , and No 11’s Nadhim Zahawi, a man who’s realised he’s only going to be in post for a few weeks, and consequently wants to have a hot chancellor summer doing things such as naffing off on holiday and ignoring questions about. Still, great to see Nadhim recharged by his time away, back round the table for another hard day’s urging and emphasising.
Hand on heart, however, you can’t accuse Keir Starmer of filling the vacuum created by those at the top of the government to which he leads the opposition. A highly unfortunate clash of holidays has left the Labour leader and his frontbench, with Starmer’s absence from the debate once again raising the suspicion that his most tirelessly nurtured political skill is simply waiting for it all to go to shit. I don’t know what you’d call this strategic ideology.
As for Kwarteng, it feels ironicidal that he was one of the Tory MPs who once wrote a book claiming thatwere “among the worst idlers in the world”. High praise! The UK “rewards laziness” apparently, which feels accurate in this case, given that 10 years on, Kwarteng is now a cabinet minister whose job is being done by TV’s Martin Lewis, along with those of about four other secretaries of state.
Incredible, given all this inaction, that we are still somehow hearing about “the blob”. Do you know about “the blob”? This is the invisible foe that ministers and their media frotters love to talk about because it shows how some woo-woo antagonist is stopping them being in even the same postcode as “adequate”. The blob is a bone idler’s version of
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