The former Sheffield MP argues that we should all have a role to play in decision making
A manifesto that the rest of us have never voted for and therefore has no political legitimacy, a fact seemingly ignored by many political pundits.Just look back to what happened with Anthony Barber’s disastrous 1972 budget and Nigel Lawson’s budget in 1988 when even my guide dog, Teddy, was sick, and I mean literally sick, during the budget speech.
The first is that the only show in town is to hear about what passes for the ideas and values of the political right. Instead of the process of political debate, at least on the right of British politics - enhancing the standing of politicians and trust in their competence and vision to see the country through – we have a deeply unedifying pretence that it had nothing to do with them., who was eliminated before the final ballot, was the only candidate who was not, in one way or another, smeared with the failure of three Conservative Prime Ministers.
During July’s heatwave, it was pretty galling to learn that some Conservatives feel that they could win support by scepticism about global warming.
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