UK politics is essentially run by Whitehall mandarins with elected pols as hood ornaments on the political machines. (Current PM Alexander Boris de Pfeffel John

UK politics is essentially run by Whitehall mandarins with elected pols as hood ornaments on the political machines. (Current PM Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson's bizarre life and political 'career' is a particularly good example of this) California is rapidly heading down the same path, not least because the giant bureaucracy has been staffed with layers of supermajority appointments, all headed up by a Getty family hood ornament