There's a difference between diagnosis and treatment. The right have been decent at the former and utterly awful at the latter.
I must admit that I used to be pretty gung ho at the idea of leaving the ECHR but your blog, uncomfortable though it can be at times, has swung me away from that absolutist position.
We need something more pragmatic from the right that will appeal to ordinary people who feel that the country's gone wrong even if they can't properly articulate it.
Talking to the mainstream right in person delivers just the same observations: plenty of social media skill, very little thought about how to run the country.
This also means, however, that if we made our own policy group and the suggestions were both Based and useful there are very few barriers to rapid adoption by front runners on our side (Restore, Reform, at this point I don't care so long as the lights stay on).
The monetary value associated with getting Britain running again, should we succeed, is surely in the hundreds of billions just for the next few years. Should a means for connecting future value to present circumstances then be found we have ourselves the easy foundations for massive work from competent people to be undertaken to put the country back together.
It's then just typical problems of logistics and management:
At this point restore needs recognition, public awareness of their mission and the sentiments behind it, publicity etc.
Without those they’ll never come close to the opportunity to implement anything.
Any policy can be picked apart if you set your mind to it, be it conservative, labour, reform or restore. Mass voter turnout isn’t brought about by policy detail or a good website.
I followed your detailed blogs during Brexit but most haven’t the attention span these days to get to the end of a long post.
No doubt there’s a place for your approach as that policies need to be well thought through but it may be in the background or inside Restore.
shots. fired.
Excellent.
There's a difference between diagnosis and treatment. The right have been decent at the former and utterly awful at the latter.
I must admit that I used to be pretty gung ho at the idea of leaving the ECHR but your blog, uncomfortable though it can be at times, has swung me away from that absolutist position.
We need something more pragmatic from the right that will appeal to ordinary people who feel that the country's gone wrong even if they can't properly articulate it.
I'm meant to be taking a break from interactions on here, but I just wanted to say Pete, you really are special.
That could mean one of two things so I choose to take it as a compliment.
Can people give Restore a chance? They've been a party for about five minutes.
Talking to the mainstream right in person delivers just the same observations: plenty of social media skill, very little thought about how to run the country.
This also means, however, that if we made our own policy group and the suggestions were both Based and useful there are very few barriers to rapid adoption by front runners on our side (Restore, Reform, at this point I don't care so long as the lights stay on).
The monetary value associated with getting Britain running again, should we succeed, is surely in the hundreds of billions just for the next few years. Should a means for connecting future value to present circumstances then be found we have ourselves the easy foundations for massive work from competent people to be undertaken to put the country back together.
It's then just typical problems of logistics and management:
What's a good platform for such discussions?
How do we keep the quality in check?
Do you have thoughts on such things?
I have the same thought. Some sort of policy group may be a good idea, but as you say, how does one address QA and other practicalities?
He’s definitely not a prat.
At this point restore needs recognition, public awareness of their mission and the sentiments behind it, publicity etc.
Without those they’ll never come close to the opportunity to implement anything.
Any policy can be picked apart if you set your mind to it, be it conservative, labour, reform or restore. Mass voter turnout isn’t brought about by policy detail or a good website.
I followed your detailed blogs during Brexit but most haven’t the attention span these days to get to the end of a long post.
No doubt there’s a place for your approach as that policies need to be well thought through but it may be in the background or inside Restore.
Best wishes from Co Durham.