tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post6653668064668309723..comments2024-03-29T13:25:33.439+00:00Comments on A K Haart: Equally IgnorantA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-58187435028386923582021-07-15T19:40:19.341+01:002021-07-15T19:40:19.341+01:00Sam - it is a poor show although he can't get ...Sam - it is a poor show although he can't get away from the MPs he must work with. Maybe good ones exist but choose not to work with Boris. One of the frustrating imponderables, but it is a poor show. A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-90562342302952308262021-07-14T20:40:39.043+01:002021-07-14T20:40:39.043+01:00I think a lot of this comes down to Macmillan'...I think a lot of this comes down to Macmillan's "Events, dear boy, events". A government can appear competent when it comes to power and knows what it wants to do. (Good examples are Maggie in 1979, and Blair in 1997). Even if it pulls the wrong levers, it looks as if it is getting on with it, and there is an air of competence. <br /><br />Boris had some of this when he came to power: his job was to deliver Brexit, and at first he got on with it brilliantly. What he didn't deliver, he bluffed, and people seemed impressed. Then, however, came covid. There was then a race to see how quickly the government could develop a veneer of competence. I suspect a lot of this is down to what experts you call on. Maybe the chief requirement of a PM then is the ability to spot a good reliable performer; and conversely the knack of avoiding the useless and the bullshitters. Knowing that the complexity of the situation defies any one person understanding the whole thing, and that polymaths are likely to be spread so thin as to be useless, it might all come down to the emotional and social intelligence to intuit people's characters. <br /><br />Cummings, Hancock, and that Dido Harding woman. Poor show, Boris.Sam Vegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978971199859845931noreply@blogger.com