[cryo32]

Might as well just hand Farage the next general election at this rate. The last decade has been personality cult after personality cult. We had the start of stability and have thrown chaos in again. Just what the opposition want.

[PaulHoule]

You mean Starmer has a personality?

[cryo32]

God no. None at all. That's what we need though. No more bloody populist snakes!

[PaulHoule]

Trouble is we are bouncing back and forth between centrist politicians who are great at coalition management but systematically sweep problems under the rug [1] and can't connect with people and populist politicians who connect with people but can't govern and flood the zone with bullshit or improperly formulated issues.

One alternative is that we find politicians that can connect and can govern, the other alternative is wait a few decades for the situation that the Club of Rome warned you about to unfold and count on a less complex civilization to be easier to govern.

[1] one cynical take is that it is a primary function of political systems to keep problems off the agenda because the agenda is finite.