On the fairness of balance and objectivity, that I pride myself on, I thought he was very good at the dispatch box today, despite some of the brushing off of certain details and his failure to be specific on the Irish border, he’s very good at orating and owning a room.
He's absolutely terrible. He's as good at dodging as Cameron and May and he'll tell lies freely and without hesitation.
What he'll be very good at is creating mini highlights for the media to get in a tizzy over with his bluster and finger wagging.
It is a stain on the nation that he's the pm.
Can I ask, do you genuinely believe that the one thing that "we have needed for so long" is someone who rabble rouses and provides "genuine theatre"?
When the country is facing the most complex and difficult political situation in living memory?
It's easy to get all macho and playground when we are judging our politicians but this isn't a football match or a pub vault. It's a serious business.
In your quieter and more introspective moments, don't you honestly think that, when it comes to leadership of a country, especially in difficult times, there are actually a myriad of qualities that are more desirable than being "pure theatre"?
Already is.The civil service will be scapegoated at some point
It’s a emotional comfort thing in part. As you say we are facing difficult times and the desire for someone to be seen to be firm or ‘taking on the opposition’ or just doing something after the drift of May can’t be underestimated.
It doesn’t do anything practical for our situation or the problems ahead, it’s more of a band playing on the Titanic moment. An illusion of normality, of control even, but it’s just an illusion. It doesn’t change anything but people will hope it does because we are pretty much out of palatable options.
We are living in an episode of Brass and bradley hardacre is PM