Chris Johns

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.

He's written a five and a half thousand word essay on what Labour needs to do.

And essentially he says Labour needs to get off its arse, stop looking inwards and look outwards.

The inward looking stuff is all about process, procedure and being lefty.

and his message is, if Labour thinks that the right turn that British politics has taken with the rise of reform, and indeed restore, I think it's called, Rupert Lowe's party, and the rightward lurch of the Tories, the evisceration of the political centre, particularly the centre-right, if Labour thinks, says Blair, that moving left, which seems to be

Burnham's thesis is going to work, think again.