Chris Johns

But anyway, that's his thesis.

Yeah, I agree.

The 70s were terrible, actually.

Power cuts, three days a week, strikes, public sector strikes, nationalised industry strikes.

Oh, my God, it was awful.

And that leaked into the early 1980s, of course, until the Thatcher.

The thing that Ganesh goes on to say is that Andrew and other shenanigans has fatally undermined the monarchy.

And I would say they're on their way out slowly.

And I would applaud that.

The BBC is a shadow of its former self, and it too probably is headed for extinction at the next license review.

And of course, the UK has become Italy, but without the food, the wine or the sense of style.

We seem to have got Italy's weather at the moment, but everything else, not so much.

We've had six prime ministers since 2016.

And soon, if Andy Burnham has his way, always streeting or somebody else, we're going to have our seventh.

And that is a perfect echo of what happened to Italy in the 1950s.

In terms of the governance of the country, we've got five political parties who now regularly poll in opinion polls in double digits in a system that's designed mostly for two parties, occasionally for three.

And that has contributed to the sense of chaos.

And we've had some interventions today, Jim, from somebody whose name you might remember.

Do you remember Tony Blair?

Indeed.