PM Ques Wednesday 16th July 2025, PMQs comment and insight
Oui! I'm crazy for Kier 😉
Sir Keir’s hugs have gone into overdrive. Just what are the people of this country or France supposed to make of all the faux affection? Not any serious political engagement, that’s for sure. The bemused French are better off than the Bemused British however, because with some subtle body language manoeuvres Macron ended up with a guiding hand on citizen Starmer’s back going into Number 10 and so established his superiority for the world to see in an instant.
The problem with Britain as elsewhere, has been a plethora of conflicting influences, echo chambers, division, guilt and blame plus a reactive rather than open, creative, culture.
Building a positive constitution and society, based on history and culture, in the ruins of a failed state, will mean that the old order (or ‘new world order’) will just fall down by itself. The alternative, being exclusively reactive and negative, which risks losing everything for which we all have striven. .
Political ineptitude often resembles an evil conspiracy.
Britain is broken and that is not confined to the economy. Shop lifting isn’t just endemic but is completely out of control. The High Street is broken apart from the money laundering industry. The post offices and pubs are facing extinction. Social cohesion, family values and moral certainty are all but gone. Where the Bobby once walked the beat remote surveillance now does the job, or doesn’t.
Societal psychosis
Social media raises anxiety levels and channels resentment contributing to irrational reactive behaviour.
The British people are collectively insane irrespective of their preferred political leanings. This is an acquired malady for which the internet is largely to blame, not only online, but because its influence has seeped into and dominated the media and influences the workplace and real world social interaction.
Mass hysteria has been clear on several occasions in recent history when one was ill advised to have described it as such. The Falklands War, the death of Diana Princess of Wales, the EU referendum and the politics of the pandemic being prime examples. Attempts to generate the phenomenon have not always been successful, such as in US presidential campaigns or promotion of various international causes, but successful enough to build echo chambers into war machines.
Prejudices on the internet feed each other, oppose each other and spiral out of control. The resulting white noise is where the rational mind is disabled and directed at will by others.
Who or what is or was responsible? It matters little and less so because to assume a nefarious actor feeds the divisive culture that will always identify the ‘Emanuel Goldstein’ -like enemy of one’s own political ‘side’ as the guilty party.
Politicians are innocents abroad unequipped to confront or rectify a failed system that is supported by the only department of state capable of reforming it.
Feeding of social media echo chamber fires gradually obscures the wider landscape and the cult members that dance around the fire become one’s world and all beyond it scary dark shapes.
So, how can the country be saved? Top down planning for society without expressed consent being part of the problem, ground up solutions based have more chance of success. Save the church, pub and post office and so save the country. Save the meadow, copse and food security and so save the country. Save the high street and corner shop and save the country. Save the family and family values to save the country. Save the fundamentals of society and culture and the rest will follow. First though, the government can restore and reactivate the machinery of the constitution so that it works smoothly again, which means repeal of the vandalism of the Blair era that broke it. Will the prime minister affect some positive change for once?