And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.
The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.