johnny9fingers | So the Tories' lead in the polls...

...remains consistent. Boris looks to be on for a 60+ seat majority. The first part of Brexit will be done before March.

And Boris has shown more of his ability to say things which are infuriatingly correct, and which some of us have been saying for over a decade: Austerity was wrong for the UK. The fucker will ~~steal~~ borrow your wife and your wallet; but when it comes to your ideas, he'll take them and sell them to the frothing-at-the-mouth loonies because he's giving the loonies the other thing they want.

He's not so much Churchill as he is Lloyd-George.

And despite all of that I still have to shout from the rooftops Brexit is wrong: wrong for the union with Scotland and Northern Ireland, wrong for the economy, wrong for the NHS, and wrong for the damage it does to our future prosperity.

However (and to use modern grammatical idioms) Brexit is right because democracy.

Democracy has a built-in problem with political falsehoods. In a perfect system with perfect information it may be that all political systems work. But that is not where we find ourselves.

There may be some sort of political equivalent to Pareto optimisation; the absence of perfect information leads to inefficient "Pareto" outcomes and politics as we know it becomes analysable using some kind of Greenwald-Stiglitz theorem. Now there's an April 1st article just waiting to be written.

All is despair and jokes. This is where we are.