Into the political abyss…
About two years after I became a Member of Parliament in 1992, a Cabinet Minister, surveying the huge difficulties engulfing the then Government said to me “It normally isn’t like this. Don’t worry it is early days and normality will return”. Well, of course, it did not.
Yesterday I bumped into a Government Minister, and observed to him “Well this is all rather like what we went through in the mid-Nineties”. “Yes” he replied, “That is true but at least it is happening at this stage of the Parliament, not at the end, so the storms will pass…………..er, at least, I hope that that is the case”, he added with a very nervous smile.
The players and the story are different this time. But I have news for him – it really is déjà vu all over again.