The reality of government has hit home! When you are foot loose, fancy free and running for leader, you can make all sorts of unrealistic promises and really believe in them
Then you get elected leader and rush into putting all your best ideas in action - and, pow, reality strikes. The markets react massively, negatively, to what you are putting in place, the electorate never wanted it anyway and even your most loyal voters turn away from you. You were warned this would happen, but didn't believe it in those cloud cuckoo days.
I have come to the conclusion that the problem with leadership in both party's is that they let their party members have the final say. In the Conservative party, the last two leaders have been ones the parliamentary aprty did not want: Johnson and Truss. In the Labour party meber voting gave them Corbyn and now Starmer.
I know Starmer is riding high at present, but it isn't because he is a good leader, it is because the last two Conservative leaders have been so truly and magnificently incompetent, that a hamster with a Labour party rosette can be guaranteed to be a better leader than Johnson and Truss, because he says nothing.
