.. but if add - so is the fight! Govt has not used its political capital in ways lots of the public recognise as in their interests.
5. Very wary of a left response to this being - give power to communities. Devo sure but most people want politicians to do their job not have to do stuff themselves
.. it feels to me like an easier out than making an argument, trying to lead opinion or frankly just recognising who your voters actually are and that in a partisan arena some people will never trust you! And that’s fine.
1/ I have written a series of articles this week, ‘Notes on Trust’, about where cynicism towards politicians comes from. The below chart, which I shared last year, was the thing which initially prompted me to write the piece. I just want to set out some of the key arguments here…
strong and striking commentary on the MOD-HMT bunfight from @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social jeegar.substack.com/p/the-treasu...
2. To my dismay people like the pomp and ceremony of Parliament. I wanted a commons that looked like a normal workplace. Groups we did hated it.
3. Tackling this is hard. Trust is so low, the public were sceptical of MPs making their own rules. They liked eg an Ofsted/FA for MPs but talked…