Thursday, May 27, 2010

New politics

Two men in conversation on the bus, one well past retirement age, the other somewhere in the middle.

Both rather liked what they had heard so far from this coalition - seems quite sensible really. That Vince Cable is good – talks about economics in a way we can understand, unlike Gordon Brown spewing statistics in a way which meant no one could follow at all. Cable is a clever man though – used to be Chief Economist for Shell didn’t he? Knows his stuff, watched a tv interviewer trying to trip him up, but no chance.

We don’t talk about politics enough, do we, said the younger man. Nobody has all the answers; we need team work to work it out.

Well we do talk about issues, said the older one, who obviously had experience on committees or councils or governing bodies. He did not think much of the Local Education Authority, thought it would be good to get them off the backs of the schools.

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