Love your enemies
John Lampen suggests that a new approach to politics is welcome
I find that election campaigns don’t bring out the Quaker in me. Instead they tend to make me sceptical, uncharitable, and grumpy. In theory I believe in democracy, but in practice I don’t find much to admire in the way our representatives run our country or work together to solve our problems.
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Thank you for this - so very much.
We see a different perspective, for a moment.
Whatever is put forward structurally for electoral and constitutional improvement, it will achieve nothing without change in the real organs of power aznd in the minds and commitment of those who become MPs.
Differences will be inevitable: crucially the need is for MPs to come together primarily in the search for ways to serve the common interest.The Party machines and the career structure work against the resolution of difference.
Structural change without change of heart will achieve little.
Let’s see what Cameron and Clegg will show can be achieved with real collaboration.