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In fairness, the set of lunatics currently in charge are anything but banal. Banal and insipid would be lovely. Banal and insipid wouldn't e.g. blow up our relationship with Europe, or attempt to out-Thatcher Thatcher. I'd love banal and insipid right now...

Hahaha, fair. I (personally) find them evil but in like a creeping sort of way. But on the flip side I just think of Liz Truss bragging about opening new pork markets and I cannot imagine anything more banal.

I'll give you the pork-markets speech, yes. No, please, take it! :)

Maybe the word is bathos. She wants to be Thatcher but is cursed with a modicum of humanity.

> this is both a tragic and entirely predictable outcome

Well, Sunak did predict during the leadership contest that this would happen - admittedly we haven't had the actual IMF in yet but if there's another severe slump, I wouldn't bet against it.

That’s populism for ya. Watch Italy, Hungary and Russia end up like this over the next year.