Less than a week ago: "It reminds me of something that I hold fast to every single day as Prime Minister, and that is that my first duty, the duty above everything else, is to keep our country safe, and to keep our people safe."
You can't say this and then not find the money while spending what we do on welfare. The action has to match the rhetoric.
@theobertram But what a situation for presumably Burnham to walk into. These problems aren't going away, the fundamentals will remain.
Could be like a series of repeats on BBC2.
During lock down we did a "World Cup of Dogs" as social activity at work.
Warfare. Grimdark warfare. No prisoners taken.
Everybody voting on emotion and prior biases instead of setting objective criteria and evaluating the breeds accordingly.
The final was the breed of the big bosses dog against the breed of a more junior team member.
The team were torn between voting boss or team worker. There was blood on the walls, on people's faces. Tears were streaming. It had been hell.
It came down to one vote and the boss had voted for the other breed. It was the ultimate power flex. You can have this. It matters to you.
We were never the same again.
There were no more World Cups of things.
"ordinarily I would find it rather self important" before going on to write a long post, asking people to give up their time to read the reasons that she has for leaving because she thinks they hold some importance that is worthy of attention. Accompanied of course by a photo of herself.