Losing looks like this

As we know, politicians are professional cynics, some more so than others. Yet it could be said that a functioning democracy requires voters to play what Disraeli called the Great Game and play it as well as the political classes. 

In which case, the cynicism of voters must match the cynicism of the political classes. Voters must match cynicism for cynicism or we lose the Great Game. 

We inevitably lose if we play the game badly, and unfortunately we play it very badly indeed. This is the consequence – this is what voters losing the Great Game looks like here in the UK.

The Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party, the SNP, Covid lockdown, inflation, Net Zero, wind turbines, Levelling Up, the NHS, HS2, mass immigration, high taxes, state education, the BBC, the Guardian, gender politics, race politics…