Kmflett's Blog

Keir Starmer is still PM at the moment and so may add more days to his tenure particularly after Arsenal became Premier League champions. He is not a huge outlier looking back over the last 20 years.

One focus of this is a debate about whether Britain is ‘ungovernable’. Another notes a wider crisis. France is on its 7th PM in 10 years, while the quite recently elected German Chancellor Metz is already very unpopular. Politicians may be more or less competent but an underlying crisis of neo-liberalism is underwriting at least some of this.

In historical context the only unfulfilled demand of the Six Points of the People’s Charter (1838) was for Annual Parliaments. In the late nineteenth century the radical demand was modified to an election every two or three years. We are getting there..