Ian Dunt
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And that fundamental contract was starting to fray at the edges.
And so we can talk about the immigration thing, and that was absolutely true, and populism.
But the fundamental economic background to this, the thing that really changed for us was in that fact.
First, just this sense of kind of shattered, white-faced shock.
And the first people you'd see responding to it looked the same.
And funny enough, they were the Brexiters.
It was Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, two of the leading pro-Brexit politicians.
Yeah, they looked like the dog that caught the bus it was chasing, didn't they?
Yeah, right.
They looked petrified.
absolutely afraid i think if they could see the way it's all worked out they'd look even more afraid than they did at the time but they look absolutely shattered by what had happened david cameron typical of his thing just sort of popped out you know it was just like oh yeah no we lost it we by the way we didn't really have any plans for what would happen if this was accepted i am obviously going to step down as prime minister so i won't help plan for it either and then just started whistling and walked back into that and she just like he started whistling he's just untouched
You can see if you go back to the video from announcing his resignation, it just sort of whistles his way back into that.
You just sort of think, just utterly unaffected by the things he does in power.
And we should remind ourselves, there's no type of human being that should be denied power.
But it is worth asking yourself always before you give someone power, how much skin do they have in this game?
What are the consequences to them?
Do they live in a gated community?
Do their kids go to private school?
Do they have private health insurance?
Are they going to be the ones in the hospital with the schools with you when this stuff goes wrong?