Inquisitive meme

[f4f3]

Fill this out in comments, if you're so inclined.
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Comments

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

My view on DC's contributions to the manifesto at the last election is that unfortunately dogs have to bark to their master's tunes. Long experience of working with very senior executives has taught me that one is never rewarded for telling one's superiors what they don't want to hear.
One rather cynical interpretation is that DC knew perfectly well that the Tories weren't ready for the sort of changes necessary before the last election, and took the view that it was better to lose again and clear the decks of the old guard.
As to whether the Tories can change, one only has to look at Labour to see what a desperate party can do if it puts its mind to it. It's almost impossible to see any of the policies Labour espoused in the 1980s in its agenda today. Unilateral nuclear disarmament... punitive tax higher tax rates.... clause 4...trade union policy.... need we continue?

And demographics are on the Tories side: most of their most reactionary old dudes are dying off at an encouraging rate of knots.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Hee - point taken on parties can adapt or die, and that wealth redistribution is the policy that dare not speak its name, but demographics are definitely not on the Tories side, since reactionary old dudes are their core vote.

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

I should have said, demographics are on the side of the Tories who want to change. Its Catch 22: without a change in support they haven't been able to change their agenda, but without a change in their agenda there has been no hope of changing their core support. When all the old hangers and floggers die off the likes of DC should have a lot more more freedom.

Having said that, I do believe that in our old age we all get more conservative and reactionary.
I met up with an old friend from university the other day who used to be somewhat to the left of Trotsky: he pipes a VERY different tune these days.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

The old saying is that anyone who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and anyone who is still a socialist at 40 has no brain. That'll be me, then.