Streeting is even more unlikeable than Starmer. There are only two Labour politicians with a chance of taking the country with them, one is Ed Miliband the other is Andy Burnham.

Two walls—climate ahead, Brexit behind. Running toward collapse.

Cannot stop. Cannot respond. Cannot—

This is what happened. This is what they did. This is how it worked.

The long 1980s continue.

Nobody responsible. Everybody knew. Nothing done.

This is not separate stories.

This is one story.

Fragmentation. Elimination of accountability. Destruction of collective capacity. The permanent way. The track we are on.

Powell’s vision—rejected in 1975—wins in 2016 because the institutions that could have resisted it were systematically destroyed.

The long 1980s are not history.

We are still in the long 1980s. Still living in what the runners built.

Grenfell burns. Covid kills. The Post Office prosecutes seven hundred innocent people. The rivers run with shit. Brexit completes the fragmentation.