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The drive towards the unattainable

Sunday, June 9, 2024 2:42

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Eliot Wilson has a useful CAPX piece on the political optimism we should have learned and retained from Margaret Thatcher.

Today’s Tories should learn from Thatcher’s optimism

When Nigel Farage announced earlier this week that he had changed his mind and would offer himself as a candidate for Parliament, he described the election campaign so far as ‘boring’. Many would disagree: from the Biblical weather of the Prime Minister’s announcement, through national service and Keir Starmer’s renewed enthusiasm for nuclear weapons, to a purge of left-wing candidates in the Labour Party, there has been plenty to hold the public’s interest. It has, however, been depressing and dispiriting.

The Opposition is bound to dwell on the negative. It is a fundamental element of the challenger’s playbook that the nation is in a terrible state and the government should be held to blame. The answer, in Starmer’s mind, is that it’s time for a change.

The whole piece is well worth reading as a reminder that any political outlook has to be ‘for’ something rather than merely against what we have now. This is Starmer’s weakness, he is not clearly ‘for’ anything other than spending more of your money. Even if he is ‘for’ something else, he won’t be tomorrow. The Tories are much the same.

Political optimism probably is necessary, but it isn’t what is guiding Starmer towards No. 10. The major parties are not ‘for’ anything attainable at all, but between them they will end up with most of the Parliamentary seats if the polls have any value at all.

Even a challenger such as Reform has to take a generally negative stance. Reform must be against the unattainable because the drive towards the unattainable is where the problems are.

Echoing the dissatisfaction of the electorate is the political equivalent of a comedian’s cheap laugh: it provokes an instant response and makes people agree with you. But it is not nearly enough. When the country has seemed to be in decline before, it has been the party offering solutions as well as an assessment of the problems which is ultimately victorious: Harold Wilson’s ‘white heat’ of technology in 1964, Margaret Thatcher’s ‘free society’ in 1979.

Perhaps this is where the problem lies. It is not possible to be optimistic about a drive towards the unattainable. Whatever the rhetoric, nobody believes it. I don’t think many people were enthused about Harold Wilson’s ‘white heat’ of technology in 1964, but the development of new technology is at least attainable.

Margaret Thatcher’s vision of a ‘free society’ was a plausible ideal in 1979, but we have swapped a plausible ideal for a drive towards the unattainable. It isn’t easy to build optimism on that.

Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-drive-towards-unattainable.html

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