Veteran British journalist Andrew Marr offered a dystopian view of the U.K.’s politics in this week’s New Statesman magazine. It’s an article that should probably be viewed as a cautionary tale by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government.
Marr said that Britain has become ungovernable and the postwar political establishment is collapsing, with the Conservatives and Labour parties haemorrhaging votes, while Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party soars in the polls .
“The nation’s patience has snapped,” he said, with repeated failures bringing an end to the politics of management and the emergence of the politics of outrage and disgust.
He painted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as a public-spirited, serious figure who had offered voters the sense that “the grown-ups” we

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