Media scrutiny, political scandals and electoral upsets - the Academy of Ideas team get together on the eve of the General Election for one last pre-vote discussion.
I'm heading out to vote, and I'm finding this election strangely exciting. The last election was dominated by Brexit. Okay so we've been hearing that one party or other is facing an 'existential crisis' since Labour lost in 1979, but like zombies in a horror movie, the big two just keep coming back. This time, however, it looks serious for the Tories, back in the 19th century JS Mill called the Tories 'the stupid party' but in more recent times there have been thinkers like Keith Joseph, John Grey, John Redwood and David ‘two brains’ Willetts. Today there are no Conservative visionaries, perhaps this is a contradiction in terms, maybe the role of Conservatives is to keep things as they are, what ever ‘things’ are. We look forward to a new government for the new Carolean age.
I'm heading out to vote, and I'm finding this election strangely exciting. The last election was dominated by Brexit. Okay so we've been hearing that one party or other is facing an 'existential crisis' since Labour lost in 1979, but like zombies in a horror movie, the big two just keep coming back. This time, however, it looks serious for the Tories, back in the 19th century JS Mill called the Tories 'the stupid party' but in more recent times there have been thinkers like Keith Joseph, John Grey, John Redwood and David ‘two brains’ Willetts. Today there are no Conservative visionaries, perhaps this is a contradiction in terms, maybe the role of Conservatives is to keep things as they are, what ever ‘things’ are. We look forward to a new government for the new Carolean age.