Thanks to the prime minister and the genius idea nobody asked for, people will be able to calculate just how broke they are
As a general rule you are better off keeping quiet if you haven’t got anything much to say. Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it. Only, most politicians can’t help themselves. They regard any silence as a moral vacuum that needs to be filled. An affront to the natural order of things. Worse still, they believe they are actually improving the world by talking. The narcissistic delusion.
Just imagine the panic in Downing Street when word got out that Keir Starmer was planning to use the last week of recess to make a speech. The horror! The horror! The leader of the opposition having the opportunity to speak a lot of words which almost everyone will either miss or ignore, while the prime minister has nothing but dead air. The unbearable lightness of being.
