The Democrats should ascribe part of their loss to that show of petulance, which was only one among others, but definitely the most public and pointed one.

Noting riles people up like being dissed in public, and then Pelosi added more injuries to the insult with her phony impeachment and the J6 show trial.

And yes, the UK is in for a long ride.
The country’s only possible salvation is if enough Labour MPs wake up (as it were) and smell the TOXIC coffee…which is not terribly likely…or if Starmer faces some sort of external catastrophe, which he will have to try to avert (or at least make it appear as though he IS trying—you know, the old “optics” thing…).

One way or the other, the clock is ticking for Britain. For most of Europe, for that matter….

Yes. Here’s something Mark Steyn wrote exactly four years ago that he reposted today:

In the American system, it is, as the Brits say, arse over tit: As Monty Python once asked, where’s the room for an argument? There are no parliamentary debates, so you never see a Dem senator going at it with a GOP senator. Even more strikingly, there are a bazillion political talk shows, none of which ever features a Dem senator going at it with a GOP senator — the way that even the most despised BBC, CBC, ABC yakfests routinely feature opposing legislators debating health care or the Irish backstop or the Covid response.

Instead, there is a multi-billion-dollar two-year campaign, which is all polls, fundraising, horse-race piffle, soft-focus telly ads for the halfwitted, plot twists of no interest to anybody normal (ooh, look, Cory Booker is up from point-three to point-four in Iowa!), all culminating in a stilted pseudo-debate tediously moderated by a pompous mediocrity asking questions all framed from the left’s point of view. You’d almost get the idea that the entire racket was designed to eliminate the very possibility that someone might make an argument.

Whole thing is a gem. Here: https://www.steynonline.com/14757/looking-for-an-argument

But the Labour creeps — e.g. PM Starmer and Foreign Secretary Lammy — are going to be in power for quite awhile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Badenoch

Could you imagine a President Kamala Harris having to submit to such a Q&A session from a Republican Speaker of the House? She would implode in a New York minute.

How long before Kemi Badenoch becomes PM?

Q. How many of our enlightened Democrats who claim that Kamala Harris lost because of misogyny and racism would applaud the political skills of Kemi Badenoch?

A. About the same number who praise the insight and scholarship of Thomas Sowell. 🙂 Just wondering.