Yes Steve, I did ask, because identifying a problem is the easy bit - coming up with a solution is what’s difficult and what takes all the careful, unprejudiced consideration.

During fifty years in industry, mostly in senior financial and management positions, I insisted on one Golden Rule, given to me by my first MD back in the ‘60s, to be in operation in all my meetings - that anyone who brings a perceived problem to the table must also bring a proposed solution for discussion. No solution, no problem, period. And it was very successful in keeping the shit-stirrers under control.

So, presumably you’re content that RL-B and AR have the charisma to overcome the Tory Propaganda Machine (quiet at the moment but, trust me, ready and only too willing to crank up to full volume as the next GE looms) and the Boris-Bluster (which, judging by comments I’ve seen in the media, is regarded by some voters as one of Johnson’s best vote-catching characteristics)?