Ian Birrell: ‘The Tories, dusting off dismal ideas such as grammar schools, imperial measures and Right to Buy housing, are torn between traditional and new constituencies while trapped under a hollow celebrity leader’
The wedding I attended on Saturday could not have felt more English, the mood more upbeat. It was a joyous event filled with friendly young professionals, some starting their own families, in the grounds of a big old house amid bucolic Kentish farmland.
Yet he is far from alone in being so disillusioned with our leaders. More than one in four of Britons now point to “lack of faith in politicians” as a key issue confronting the country, according to Ipsos Mori. Later I sat next to a woman who had moved to New Zealand and was returning to Britain for the first time since the start of the pandemic. When I asked how she found the country, she grimaced before questioning if I really wanted to know. Then she went on a tirade about systemic failures, officials hiding online, the inability to talk to human beings and, sort a driving licence and fix a minor local problem with her council.
Her view was expressed at an event, like many, affected by the latest rail strike. It took me almost three times longer than planned to reach the venue, thanks to the clogged roads. The dispute has sparked talk that Britain is slumping back into the 1970s, with threats of industrial struggle spreading to schools,
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