"If Keir Starmer falls on his sword, we'll be on to our sixth prime minister in seven years. The first five guys were just the wrong five guys starts to sound like the kind of thing Liza Minnelli would say, called upon to account for a life of torch songs."
"If we reject all this, we make ourselves ungovernable, consign ourselves to the civic equivalent of a life on the shelf, always questing after some fresh bureaucrats, only to tear them apart when things get ugly."
"In many ways it feels like yesterday - the same creeping sense that politics wasn't about democracy at all, but rather, a weird circus of levers pulled to remind us of democracy, while it shored up the power of the weak."
The electorate's role in political turmoil is questioned, particularly as the UK faces its sixth prime minister in seven years. Keir Starmer's potential actions to block a sleaze inquiry reflect a troubling trend of rejecting accountability. This cycle of leadership changes suggests a deeper issue within the electorate, which may be contributing to a sense of ungovernability. The political landscape is characterized by a disconnect between the dramatic events in Westminster and the electorate's disillusionment with democracy, leading to a repetitive cycle of dissatisfaction.
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