Worsfold's Wisdom: Plus ca change, FSA la meme chose

There are few certainties in this changed political reality - except that the FSA stays put

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There are few certainties in this changed political reality - except that the FSA stays put.

It was former Prime Minister Harold Wilson who first said that a week was a long time in politics. He was stating the obvious but has there ever been a week in British politics more packed with drama, the unexpected being trumped the next moment by the unimaginable? Not in my lifetime. We have our first peacetime coalition government since the National Government of the early 1930s and it is going to take alot of getting used to. The rules of politics have changed and will continue to change. Asked on Radio 4 this morning when the next election will be, the new Foreign Secretary Wi...

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