Change is as much about the electorate as it is the government

It’s an odd thing that on the one hand everything proceeds on from the enormous fact of the economic crash but, conversely, almost nothing has changed, writes Gerard Howlin

THERE will be scant public sympathy but the past six months of hiatus, have been very wearing for the body politic. Some attention has been given to those demoted, or who failed to be promoted. But spare a thought for the political underclass of oompa-loompas, whose master’s demotion meant the end. Once merely nameless, they are now placeless. But such is the wheel of fortune.

The grind over months, from New Year to July, working unsociable hours often away from home, sustained too often on either the wrong sort of food or food eaten at the wrong times, is wearing. There is the endless process of meetings, votes and playing tactically hour by hour, while trying to remember what exactly the strategy was you started out on in the first place. There is the fundamental issue of climate change by which I mean the increasingly hostile and dismissive climate politics exists in.