Figureheads, all

Dave Cameron & Co. are doing very badly against vested interests. Multinationals are playing fast and loose with the tax system, Michael Gove, allegedly the Justice Minister, has been forced to abandon reform of the bloated and much abused legal aid system by the legal trade, the doctors’ union is clinging desperately to its Spanish practices, and the judiciary keeps inventing new laws and making perverse interpretations of existing ones in pursuit of private political agendas. So much for the government actually doing any governing.