We’ve had the hard left v hard right situation before, but the likes of Foot and Thatcher, for their many ideological faults, were bright and committed leaders with a genuine desire to change things. I never thought I’d hark back to the days of either, but fucking hell.
The country isn’t finished. Today’s youth will grow up, the old brigade will die off, and we will get back to sensible politics and government. But it’s a long way away at the moment and it’s genuinely frightening that Johnson and Trump got to become leaders of powerful western countries.
We got complacent.