”But his greatest ambition for England is this: the prince and his commonwealth should be in accord … a household where everybody knows what they have to do, and feels safe doing it.” The hopes of Thomas Cromwell, as imagined by novelist Hilary Mantel in Bring Up the Bodies, the second in her Tudor trilogy, were high even then; now, they seem laughably improbable. For who, in the present emergency, knows what they have to do? Not our elected leaders, nor us, it seems when it came to these European elections: rarely has a poll provoked as much bewildered debate about how best to ensure accurate representation of one’s political wishes.
Where is the man or woman who can discreetly manoeuvre the politicians?
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