I don't usually connect to Iain Dale, but I did find his interview with Peter Oborne extremely interesting.
The emergence of a political class is something that has left me profoundly uneasy.
Thomas Sowell's book, The Vision of the Anointed also, albeit from an explicitly right wing American point of view, evaluates the political effect of the clannishness of "liberal" politics- with the subsequent advent of American neo-conservatism, it seems appropriate to apply his strictures across the political spectrum.
I will write further on this, but watching Peter Oborne was a breath of fresh air.
Constitutional reform is an urgent issue, not a theoretical one.
The emergence of a political class is something that has left me profoundly uneasy.
Thomas Sowell's book, The Vision of the Anointed also, albeit from an explicitly right wing American point of view, evaluates the political effect of the clannishness of "liberal" politics- with the subsequent advent of American neo-conservatism, it seems appropriate to apply his strictures across the political spectrum.
I will write further on this, but watching Peter Oborne was a breath of fresh air.
Constitutional reform is an urgent issue, not a theoretical one.
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Lepidus
I think the shocking thing in the Oborne interview, which I had heard before, but not so starkly was that no one in the cabinet has worked in business or management at all.
It should worry all of us that both Labour and Conservative, and to a lesser extent Lib Dems have all become professional politicians.
I look at so many politicians and they've just been in politics ever since university (or before) without any experience outside.
Unfortunately I don't know how to solve this problem...