Theresa May

David Cameron
The present Government gives us the fifth PM in 12 years. However, 12 years in power seem to have exhausted both the Conservatives and public alike. Rather than growing stronger over time they have become weaker. But it’s not just the Conservatives as all political parties represented in Parliament have followed the Conservatives into weakness. It goes further in that all public servants have joined in this demise.

You may have noticed that we have another PM as the last one resigned. The new one is called Rishi Sunak, has been in post 6 weeks and we'll take a look at him later. You may have also noticed that things are not going well for us here in the UK and more on that later too. The outgoing PM Liz Truss had to sack her Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng. But what did he do? Well he did what she told him to do! He had been in post for 38 days and the turn-around in his fortunes and by implication those of Truss, who served for 49 days, are remarkable.

Theresa May
So how did all this start? Brexit is not to blame for where we find ourselves and Michel Barnier, the EU’s Chief Brexit negotiator, has gone on record to say so. Even so there is an opportunity for those people who will never accept the Brexit result to gather themselves up for a fight.

Ray Honeyford - 1984

It started off simply and it's only just begun, but the battle of words between Home Secretary Theresa May and Education Minister Michael Gove runs deep. This story has been taken down from the front pages of national newspapers and ironically fighting between rival Islamic factions in the Middle East played a big part in its removal. For anyone who has followed the Islamification of the UK this event has been illuminating. Initially it looked to be all about schools, but there was more. They public have felt abandoned as they watched the root causes of the dispute happen and have had to put up with the consequences in cities all across the UK. It has been convenient for large sections of the media to paint Gove as a neocon. May tripped up very early on this we can see with her remark implying that the problem with schools in Birmingham began in 2010. No it did not. If May and her counter-terrorism 'experts' really think this is so then this explains a lot. So where is the origin of this?

We could go back to the Ray Honeyford case of the mid-1980s. This was in Bradford but other cities could equally well have behaved the same way. Bradford also led the way with the problems following the publication of The Satanic Verses.