Dr David Starkey

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TRIGGERnometry · The British State Hates its Own People - Dr David Starkey · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

And so, again, what we should also be talking about is why do we seem to be in such an impossible mess?

I think one of the reasons is that because, okay, I used, I'm afraid Theresa May gets me very cross, but just because I think she was so, I hate stupidity.

And when you see, when you ask on the quality of politicians, when you see transparent stupidity, particularly being a teacher for a long time, you learn to control your reproving of it.

But when it's on that huge public scale, and again, it's really important, that inflicts such terrible, terrible damage.

You know, this quest for the legacy.

You do something off the cuff, and it inflicts damage on your country, which you can quantify, I would argue, in the trillions.

That is serious.

That's why the term guilty men and guilty women really comes in.

But why is the Conservative Party, why is it in the mess that it is?

Why is Kemi, who is quite impressive in her way, I don't think she was going to be, but she's performed reasonably well, why has she failed so badly?

Because they haven't admitted what went wrong.

until the Conservative Party does a full-scale mea culpa.

I mean, you see, it's analogous to the situation that we found ourselves in in the 1970s.

In the middle of the 1970s, the entire post-war structure was collapsing.

From 1945 onwards, you had, if Britain was a 90% socialist country,

It was arguably more socialist than East Germany, or as socialist as East Germany.

And what was striking in 51 is that Churchill's conservatives went along with it.

So from 45 through to about 75, there were two parties that, you know, in the phrase of the day, the current phrase of the web, it was a uniparty.

And it didn't really make all that much difference.

The Conservatives were mildly more financially competent than Labour, but not much.

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