Tragically, the next General Election will be a contest between two flavours of bland. Instead of two competing visions, two clashing ideologies, with Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak we have two types of technocrat, competing to be the nation’s bank manager. Party politics seems to have reverted to its pre-2016 mould, where the stakes were low and the choices were narrow.
This is a crying shame. The crises we face today – from economic meltdown to heightened geopolitical tensions – call for bold, radical thinking. We need new ideas and fresh visions, not more plodding managerialism or technocratic tinkering. There is a yearning for serious change out there. What a shame that none of the above is prepared to offer it.
