We define political savvy as the ability to maximize and leverage relationships in order to achieve organizational, team, and individual goals.
Since the end of the last Labour government Britain has regressed weirdly in terms of who holds power. The upper classes have reasserted their right-to-rule. Cameron and Boris Johnson, especially, have governed with a coterie of the privileged. Both men have their talents but, at their worst, have shown the worst aspects of their class – condescension, cockiness and, unfortunately for the rest of us, catastrophically bad judgment cocooned by impermeable self-belief.
This is a dangerous game. Around them a revolution is taking place. The statues of the historical British Establishment and its empire are falling. Campaigns for minority rights have descended into brutal and saddening culture wars. The Covid-19 crisis has exposed both the possibilities but also the ineptitude of government.
The Union wobbles.
The class problem plays an integral part.
We have a right to expect merit, integrity and empathy from our rulers. Self-interest and blithe indifference to consequences cannot be squared away by charm and rhetorical optimism. Frankly, it all makes me want to don my duffel coat and head for the barricades.
