"Lee Cain - a Marxist Analysis" 1/ Vote Leave won, took over the Tory party and govt and then a) Covid b) Biden cancelled their essential project ... plus...
2/ Johnson is not stupid but lazy and has a short attention span ... he can't lead and has no vision so outsources everything to cronies ... but the "thin deal" creates a fork in the road ... meanwhile ...
3/ Everyone in govt knows that when the public reckoning happens over the late lockdown, Johnson and Cummings are toast... but there's a deeper problem of fiscal strategy ...
4/ Debt to GDP is at >100% but conventional austerity is impossible ... you can't bluff or technocrat your way past that, especially if you just severed links with the EU...in this sense Cummings/Gove are right...
5/ UK needs big, state directed tech investment drive; massive skills and education boost; reform of the state *just to standstill* after Covid is gone... but Tory grandees have no stomach for it...
6/ as for the advisor personality clashes and screw ups - this is what happens when reasonably skilled people are faced with politicians who are dud and have no leadership skills. You can't "advise" - you have to lead - but without political authority, and when you try to: 💥💥💥
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