Here in the UK, we’re clinging to a hope that someone is going to spring onto the scene to provide us with the political leadership we think we deserve.
While they’re on with it, perhaps they can fine-tune their decision-making machine and bring it into the present Century.
Many Government decisions are taken elsewhere, of course, but from time to time we’re privileged to see snaps of the Cabinet in session. Does that look like the best we can do? So many bodies squeezed around a polished wood table, formally dressed, more for a funeral than for 2019 business.
Forget for a minute their personal agendas and consider the situation in the room. Twenty-one Ministers plus the PM. No sensible discussion can take place involving that many people. There’s surely no way that those attending enter the room open-minded, willing to learn, their focus on finding the right solution, not on who’s idea it was; no way each Minister gets a clear chance – and responsibility – to speak un-interrupted; no way that each point made is properly listened to and considered.
We need our leaders to give clear thought to our future. It will help them to do that if, first, they catch up with the present.