Chris Trotter
Traditionally year’s end is a time of self-assessment.
We look back over the previous 12 months, counting the number of steps forward, the number of steps back. If the arithmetic comes out in our favour, then a healthy measure of self-congratulation is in order for once again getting “ahead”.
That word “ahead”, so beloved by contemporary politicians, is not, however, deployed without risk. If ordinary voters fall foul of their own arithmetic, arriving at the end of the year feeling further behind that they were at its beginning, then the political ramifications can be dire.
This is especially so when the events that pushed voters back were not of their own making.
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