New party or alliance on the cards for the next general election

I’M TOTALLY flummoxed. I keep meeting people who are utterly fed up with the government, and determined never to vote for them again.

But the very same people, when pressed a little bit, will tell you that the single most important thing is that nothing should happen to undermine the economic recovery that seems to be happening.

The trouble is, it’s the carbon monoxide recovery. You know that ad that warns you to install a detector in your home, because you can’t see carbon monoxide or smell it or hear it. It could still be all around you, doing terrible damage. The recovery is like that. It’s odourless, invisible, inaudible. And we’re waiting for the damage. We don’t trust the recovery, and we certainly don’t trust the people who have, somehow or other, engineered it.