Trust in politics is now so low, so degraded, that nobody believes anyone can make a difference any more. After the sex scandals, the expenses scandals, the waste scandals, the contracts for friends – even in a crisis like the pandemic – people think they’re all just in it for themselves.
This is definitely part of a plan and not an opportunistic pony ride on the back of the TV show called Adolescence when has been on every front page and chat show for the last week.
As Owen well knows, there was such a man and the Guardian helped make sure it never happened. I don’t know why he still writes for them, because we know what happens at crunch time.
Trust in politics is now so low, so degraded, that nobody believes anyone can make a difference any more. After the sex scandals, the expenses scandals, the waste scandals, the contracts for friends – even in a crisis like the pandemic – people think they’re all just in it for themselves.