Leaders shit? Challenge
Reading the reporters' log on the Tory leadership shenanigans, nothing struck me more than that the nerdish excitement of the reporters matched that of sports fans when something happens in, say, footie.
The poor souls! You'd think it was something actually important. You want to remind them that it doesn't really matter. It doesn't matter who the players are, the game remains the same. Besides, the real business of life, government, power, it all goes on elsewhere. Parliament, the whole of the thing we call politics, is a sideshow.
So long as we all don't forget that, it's a bit of fun.
But Dr Zen, I hear a small voice saying, surely it matters who runs the place and what policies they pursue?
No, I reply. For instance, we voted in Tony Blair and his crew to bring change, to renew the nation, to level the playing field just a little, to reflect for us how much we wished to ditch Thatcherite cynicism and how much we wanted to take the higher feeling that was embodied in our culture of dancing and euphoria and remake our world. We believed that our nation could stop funding despots, stop selling weapons to murderers, stop plundering the poor, stop favouring big business over the person in the street.
And we got a war we didn't want, our services in ruins, hatred defining the agenda on immigration, our liberties stolen one by one, another bankrupt regime.
posted by Dr Zen @ 2:25 am
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