meltdown

The government are in real trouble & its hard to give a shit as, too be honest, they bought it all on themselves...

... it is interesting though to read the real sense of panic from lefty commentators. Speaking as a lefty wannabe commentator I can empathise. Cameron is making ground at a rate of knots. He has no detailed policies but he is pegging the party colours to a number of more progessive masts & this is having an effect - on the political landscape, on the party & maybe ultimately on the country.

Interesting though: if there was one thing we really *needed* Thatcher for it was to face down the unions, which were abusing their power in the 70s. Now I think we really *need* a party capable of facing down big business. We would take several leaps forward if we did a handful of key things to control & limit business power and influence & channel the undoubted energiesof the private sector more into social goods.

And frankly neither mainstream party convinces. Labour are terrified of looking anti-business. Conservatives just don't have the instincts. Even now as Cameron talks a good talk on CSR they just don't have the track record or the will power seemingly to follow it through. It would be interesting if they got into government on this platfom because I'm fairly convinced they would fail to deliver on a lot of these issues & they would be in the situation where they would have to weigh up whether looking useless or annoying boardroom chums was the devil they preferred to the unpalatable briny blue.