If he wants to represent change, he must first deliver it. Both in tone, and in substance. There’s no sign of that to date.
We don’t treat our politicians like that here, for better, or for worse.
“Let’s dare to be different.”
On some of the issues where the Government is most vulnerable – energy prices, refugees, crime, and so on – the opposition has no punch to throw.
You do not have to like him to agree with this, you simply need to recognise that three things are true.
Since November of 1990 the Conservative and Unionist party has been searching its ranks for the reincarnation of Mrs. Thatcher.
So, back we go, however temporarily, to a Britain of Keir Starmers and Ken Clarkes and Alastair Campbells. The grown ups are, for a time, back in charge.
What would Ireland look like if the Irish media gave even a fraction of the scrutiny it does to Mr. Johnson to the Irish Government, and its record?
Putting on pressure.
Americans, to their very great credit, are much less tolerant of things like super high prices for fuel than Europeans are.
Boosting national food output.
It’s the contrast between a country that takes politics seriously, and a country in which nobody, nobody at all, takes any real responsibility for governing.