Andy Zaltzman
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which is probably a fair criticism of Keir Starmer.
But in terms of what you want in politics, vision and direction, not necessarily what you want.
As Josh, you were hinting at in America, Donald Trump has vision and direction.
The problems are the hallucinations that he's seeing and the fact that where he's going is as fast as possible simultaneously off a cliff and into an iceberg.
So vision and direction, not necessarily good things politically.
Yeah, direction and drift also two absolute keys for successful spin bowling in Test cricket.
So the question now for Labour is whether it does seem that a leadership challenge will happen at some point.
It might be a few months away because they have to wait for Andy Burnham
former cabinet minister, current mayor of Manchester, to get back into Parliament because he's not currently an MP, although an MP in Manchester has said he will step down and allow Burnham to stand.
But even then, they might not win that by-election because they won the election in 2024 with not a particularly big majority.
But Labour is faced with this unappetising... I guess as the old proverb goes...
But as the other old proverb goes, don't continue to ride a drowning horse midstream.
Basically out of the frying pan into an almost identical frying pan, whatever they choose to do.
One feature that we always get whenever we have sort of political upheavals like we're going through at the moment is journalists standing in Downing Street shouting questions at politicians as they walk into and out of 10 Downing Street.
And obviously the politicians never answer those questions, but those questions still get shouted.