...that the 'retreat from the public arena' mentioned by the Tory blogger he points to could be symptomatic of whatever our pet cause for the current spiritual / moral malaise is. My personal favourite would be political centralisation, or possibly the near-disappearance of a competent public sector.Falling crime + increasing alienation = a perception of higher crime
But that's the point of the Blair / Cameron project, isn't it? The use of mood-music to create a problem for which 'vision' from a carefully presented public official is the solution.
It's a shame that the words Blair and Cameron don't fit together like Butler and Gaitskell did, innit?
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Blameron? Camair? Take your point. I went to a conference in Paris recently and one of the presenters talked about le Sarkoberlusconism. The thing he argued that I think fits your argument here is that Sarko and Berlus both work on the basis of combining Fear with a Dream or Vision. I don't think Cameron has quite cracked this yet. He also pointed out the extent to which Sarkozy and Berlusconi both personalise politics to a very great degree. In your terms - the carefully presented public official HAS to be them. (The guy has written a book on this, which is in French.)
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