Andy Zaltzman
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I think even the most ardent Brexit fans would acknowledge that.
And I think what we have to do, we have to give it time.
It's probably too early to reopen those still open wounds still further.
What we need to do is let Brexit take its course.
And if it's going really, really well after 40 years, then we abandon it and rejoin the EU.
That's basically the principle by which Brexit happened itself in the first place.
So West Street wrote a letter of resignation in which he said, where we need vision, we have a vacuum, and where we need direction, we have drift.
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...