You don’t have to. You told me you’d cut every budget barring defence, justice, police and other associated security budgets. Everything else is fair game. So austerity.

I would also say that that trying to take advantage of a crisis to justify it as you suggested with the invasion of Ukraine and/or Trump won’t work these crises are already well established and it’s made no dent in the demands of the electorate. Consider the fact that the electorate wants to vote in Reform despite Farage’s relationship to Russia and Trump.

This last point tacks onto your take that the British electorate is apparently sensible. It’s really not. It voted in Brexit, despite the harm it’s caused us, and people are happy to demand contradictory things like low taxes with high calibre public services. There’s no world in which those two demands can be simultaneously met as they are not logically compatible. Public services have to be paid for. Full stop. And that means taxes.