I've sat down to draft a blog a few times in the past few weeks, but for various reasons, not returned to them. And yet combined, they knit together to form a story that was painfully evident to so many of us: the current British government is not incompetent, they simply do not care. There has felt like a fundamental chasm between the Conservative government and the people for a while now, not least in October, when Rishi Sunak was hurriedly put in place as Prime Minister with very limited democratic process. For all his failings (and there are endless), Boris Johnson won a General Election, providing him with a mandate to implement policy. When he got himself in one-too-many a scandal, Liz Truss was chosen as his successor by the ~200k members of the Conservative Party, less than a month before she crashed the economy - leading to Sunak. The erosion of democracy that this represents is best illustrated by how the country has been governed. Since Johnson's landslide election