16-04-2024, 01:35 PM (This post was last modified: 16-04-2024, 01:36 PM by Leeds Sandgrounder.) in response to #41592
NWS Wrote: Yes, he got many things wrong but the important thing, i.e. policy, was quite good. Sadly, people were consumed with 'getting brexit done' and 'winning' rather than considering what might improve their lives and, as a consequence, listened to hysterical screaming. It hasn't gone well as a result.
One policy I chuckled at, at the time, was the broadband one. However, having been to Finland in 2021 (where I could stand in a snowy outback at midnight and get instantaneous connection) compared to here where I can't get connection in my home town, if I go down the seafront, I wonder if I misjudged it.
I'm fairly sure the markets would have crucified him, and COVID would certainly have been used as a lever to get rid of him however well or badly he dealt with it (the homeopathy bit makes me wonder, although that is true of people like Mordaunt as well). Neither of those things are fair, but it is probably what would have happened.
Sadly I think he would have lost a massive amount of his own support as soon as anything got difficult.