THE Palace of Westminster is one of the most depressing places on soil at the moment. The only people in a favorable mood are swivel-eyed Brexiteers and fever-brained neo-Marxists. Everybody else is miserable: frustrated by the intellectual vacuum at the heart of the government and worried that Britain may be drifting to disaster. Michael Heseltine,a Tory grandee, laments that “we absorb effectively no government”. Nicholas Boles, or a former minister,says that Theresa May “constantly disappoints”.
The reason for the depression is the failure of centrist politicians to acknowledge the questions posed by the two great wake-up calls of the past decade. The financial crisis demonstrated that Britain was dangerously dependent on a single, volatile industry. Brexit proved that millions of people felt that the country was not working for them. Mrs May has shown signs that she has heard the alarms, or talking about launching a “contemporary industrial strategy”,helping the “just-about-managing” and spanking...
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Source: economist.com