If you want to understand Andy Burnham, the only thing you’ll ever have to read is… this.
I was going to tag this as “humour”, but it’s too true to be haha funny.
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If you want to understand Andy Burnham…June 24th, 2026 |
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Yes – and this stuff, this mixture of “I am one of you” and demented fake economics, is popular, but the popularity will, I believe, wear off quickly.
For a very long time the establishment has believed that it is the job of government (the Sword of State) to “help the people” – in reality state intervention has always made things worse than they otherwise would have been, but the madness goes on and on. It will end with Mr Burnham.
It will be a terrible, as well as farcical, end – but at least it will be the end.
As for his Catholicism – it does NOT include any Catholic religious doctrines (see his view of abortion and so on), but does include “Catholic social teaching” in regards to economics (Mr Biden was also fond of this – the only aspect of the Catholic Church he was fond of) – a mixture of the economic policies of Pope Gregory (he of the calendar) confiscation of private property to fund spending (“for the good of the poor” – which meant that the Papal States became famous for their poverty), and the false claims made in the first paragraph of the 1891 Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII – the claims, inspired, in part, by Cardinal Manning, that capitalism had increased poverty, only benefited a rich few, and had increased immorality.
Policy that is based upon false claims is likely to be harmful – and so it has proved.
The truth was in the first line. “Politics isn’t working”. More accurately, your version of electoral politics is not working. Electoral politics, parliamentary or otherwise, is not the only form of politics. Most of them are neither safe, nor pleasant , nor free; but throughout history they have been the norm. When a high enough percentage of a population loses faith in a system of government and its legitimacy; one or another of those other systems of politics will be turned to and the turning will not be pleasant.
Here in my own country we are at the beginning of what I am starting to refer to as The Great Divide, which is a prelude to what is likely to happen. You are a bit farther along. But the intrinsic lawlessness of the government and the inability of the people to affect things by voting are sure signs.
Subotai Bahadur