Thread by @JolyonMaugham

To return the country to a less angry and divided state would require a process for which, I fear, this Government has no appetite.

The Brexit process, which took a dishonest and absolutist mandate from a flawed referendum that delivered a tiny majority, has left us angry and divided.

The Government quite deliberately, and for its own political gain, chooses a policy of dividing the country through its dishonest culture war that attacks the basic humanity of the most vulnerable.

Its intolerance of dissent - by protestors, in Parliament, in civil society, amongst judges, or charities, or the media, or regulators, or civil servants - leaves people with nowhere to go. It constitutes the country as pressure cooker.

The Government pursues economic and social policies which attack working class and middle class voters and the young - and privilege the already vastly wealthy. First give them bread, and then talk wrong and wrong (apologies to Brecht).

MPs work enormously hard at an astonishingly difficult job for which they are, let me say it, underpaid. For the privilege of public service they sacrifice their families and get back threats and, tragically, sometimes worse. Individually they deserve so much better.

But there is no over-the-counter salve for the anger they face. Not remotely. Things will continue to deteriorate. To change this trajectory Government will need to take strong medicine for which, I fear, it continues to have no appetite.