Harold Macmillan was the only real UK Statesman I have known during my time here.
Possibly it's a generation thing as he was an Infantry Officer in WW1 so fought for the freedom of the country he loved and knew all about service to the public as he was seriously wounded in action and suffered daily.
Nye Bevan was before my time but he was one in a very quiet way.
Helmut Schmidt and John F Kennedy had it too.
Gravitas is a quality few possess or earn maybe.
I find that a sorry state of affairs too.
For the last 40 years Politics have become a business not a conviction and like fast food has been handed over by the USA.
