We ask once more: Has Britain become ungovernable?

We ask once more: Has Britain become ungovernable?

Britain is once again asking itself an uncomfortable question: are our leaders failing the country, or has the country itself become increasingly ungovernable? That dilemma, sharpened by Sir John Major’s recent intervention and amplified by Guardian columnist Zoe Williams, cuts to the heart of Britain’s political paralysis. Major, a former prime minister who governed through recession, party civil war and constitutional upheaval, warned that mod…