Why Cameron is right on families
8:11pm
For all my misgivings about the Cameron project, he is in exactly the right place on the family. His speech today was authentic, strong, thought-provoking and laid out clear blue water between him and Gordon Brown. As the rather pitiful performance of Ed Miliband on Today this morning showed us, Brown is uninterested in the family agenda. He looks as this only in terms of children, whips his calculator out and declares them “lifted out of poverty” having crossed some weird threshold. Cameron talks about broken homes – language everyone understands.
The Broken Society topic is the most urgent issue in Britain today, and Cameron is firmly on the right side of the debate. This and his potentially revolutionary schools policy are the two strongest arrows in Cameron’s quiver. Lets have some more.
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MTK
July 10th, 2007 9:07pm Report this commentLet us hope that the findings of the policy committees can be used for real, manifesto-material policy. If that works out OK then I am content to follow the traditional chefs' advice of "don't even bother to taste the sauce until it has come to the boil". The rightly fear, which I share to an extent is that, to mix a culinary metaphor, we might find that we have curdled our custard and have no eggs left with which to start again.
PW
July 11th, 2007 10:04am Report this commentLink to 'schools' does not work.
PW, That's fixed now. Thanks for letting us know.
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