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‘Education, Education, Education’That used to be Blair’s cry. And now the Tories have a cry of their own: ‘Stability, Stability, Stability.’
Their leader, David Cameron, is quoted in today’s Financial Times as saying: “When it comes to the economy, I am absolutely clear that stability and responsibility come first, second and third as our priorities - and that they come before the commitment to cut taxes."
This will be the first election that the Tories have not pledged to cut taxes and represents a movement to the middle ground. This ‘middle ground’ has quickly become over-populated, though with the Liberals (or what remains of them) fighting with labour for the ‘centre’. Interestingly the Tories are looking at ‘flattening’ the tax system (and thus flattening Labour) which is an idea fully explored at the Adam Smith org
Economics students will already be familiar with the Rabushka–Hall Version but this would be new to Business Studies pupils. An interesting read…
Will this move to the centre ground lead, as Lord Tebbit said on Question Time recently, to a disenfranchisement of ‘Conservative’ voters? If so where will they go – if anywhere? Could the next election be characterised by the lowest turnout ever but this time the ‘no-showers’ being the older generation, not the younger one? If so will Politics become less funky, less trendy and more traditional in a move to encourage us older folk to get out and vote? Forget online voting, perhaps we will be encouraged to vote via the weekly insurance agent, or by sending in cut-out-and-keep forms on certain Typhoo-tea packs. To woo us maybe there will be subsidies on Grecian 2000 as Grecian 2000 Lotion 125ml is currently far too expensive at £6.99…
Some may find it odd that the Conservatives should emphasise ‘stability’ at the same time as launching an economic competitiveness commission because, as is discussed at Oxford Conferences, equilibrium is ‘death’…
Chris Sivewright
posted by Duncan Williamson @ 7:32 AM
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