While waiting for the PM question the BBC news team and some others engaged in some banter about Rishi Sunak. They went round the table talking about how they had all been trying to get people to dish the dirt on him. And how they had all failed, not because people wouldn’t talk, but because nobody had any dirt – they all spoke highly of him.
Meanwhile in Edinburgh there has been nothing but mud slinging for days, weeks, months, years, but the ferocity is getting to a peak.
People are disillusioned with politics. My personal view for some time has been that the problem with our political systems is the political parties. In different parties there are people that stand out, not because of their political views, but because of their commitment to the people they represent and the way they conduct themselves.
A lot of people push for proportional representation in elections as an imagined “fix” for our politics. But really PR puts greater power in the hands of political parties.
So how can we change to a political system that is anti-party?