Thread by @Staedtler

We've also had a revolution, which is largely unremarked. Our principles have been overthrown.

The last time our politics was driven by political fervency was in the 1970s.

For fifty years we've known, we've taught ourselves, that if you don't have a viable economy you won't have anything else.

And yet here we are, back again in the 1970s with its beery back street agitators, its bloviating MPs, its gobby, public school journalism.

The whole political . . . industry, I suppose, for a better word . . . has just gone backwards by half a century, and nobody wants to address it.

1970 levels of poverty, 1970s racism, and 1970s public crudity calling itself politics.

The country has obviously suffered some sort of emotional shock, and we've all been sent back in time, and all these old men creeping round acting like teenagers.

The aesthetics of Brexit are fucking appalling, and I want that written down.