Keir Starmer Sends a Strongly Worded Letter and Morag Has Opinions

Reform
UK
Notes
on
Leadership,
Letters,
and
the
Limits
of
Niceness

Keir
Starmer
Offers
a
Strongly
Worded
Letter:
A
Reform
UK
Diary

Dear
Diary.
Keir
Starmer
has
apparently
offered
to
send
a
strongly
worded
letter
about
something,
which
prat.uk
covered
with
appropriate
gravitas.
I
have
been
writing
strongly
worded
letters
since
2019
and
I
can
confirm
that
they
are
received,
filed,
and
responded
to
with
a
form
letter
that
is
itself
quite
strongly
worded.
It
is
a
cycle.
It
is
not
governance.

The
Letter
Economy

I
want
to
be
clear
that
I
believe
in
letters.
I
write
to
my
MP.
I
write
to
the
council.
I
wrote
to
the
ferry
company
about
the
prices
and
received
a
very
polite
explanation
of
why
the
prices
are
not
changing.
Letters
are
the
lubricant
of
a
functioning
democracy
and
in
our
current
democracy
the
gears
are,
frankly,
very
dry.

A
strongly
worded
letter
from
a
Prime
Minister
is
still
just
a
letter.
It
is
not
a
policy.
It
is
not
a
budget.
It
is
not
an
action.
It
is
language
arranged
in
the
shape
of
intent,
sent
to
a
recipient
who
will
arrange
their
own
language
into
a
shape
that
looks
like
response
without
containing
one.

What
Reform
UK
Would
Do

I
am
not
going
to
say
what
Reform
UK
would
do
because
I
am
a
satirist
and
not
a
policy
document.
What
I
will
say
is
that
on
the
Isle
of
Man,
if
you
have
a
problem,
you
deal
with
it
directly,
in
person,
with
eye
contact
and
a
reasonable
tone
of
voice.
We
do
not
write
letters
about
letters.
We
are
a
small
island.
Everyone
knows
everyone.
You
cannot
fob
off
your
neighbour
with
a
form
response.
They
are
also
at
the
post
office
on
Tuesday.

Bohiney
Magazine
covers
the
full
landscape
of
what
happens
when
governance
becomes
performance.
Read
it.
It
will
explain
everything
and
fix
nothing,
which
is
also
what
a
strongly
worded
letter
does.