The politics of the #UK is dysfunction as entertainment. Brilliant scriptwriters keep the story skidding between plausibility, slapstick, and surrealism. #ComedyGold

But discussion has been hindered by the lack of a term for the terminal illness of most modern governments. Major and Brown had years of it; May months, Johnson weeks, and Truss days.

So I present the needed word: the #Mortoregnum.

A week ago, #Starmer's regime abruptly passed from severe illness to mortoregnum. #popcorn !

The politics of the #UK is dysfunction as entertainment. Brilliant scriptwriters keep the story skidding between plausibility, slapstick, and surrealism. #ComedyGold

But discussion has been hindered by the lack of a term for the terminal illness of most modern governments. Major and Brown had years of it; May months, Johnson weeks, and Truss days.

So I present the needed word: the #Mortoregnum.

A week ago, #Starmer's regime abruptly passed from severe illness to mortoregnum. #popcorn !