motown….please tell me that you got the time release on your post wrong, by around 1 ½ hours.
Straight off I get the feeling that forget the difference in ideologies, you appear to be saying that being dumber than Miliband is more important than the policies.
May I just point out that in the Blair/Brown mainly private school administration, they had in very senior positions an ex ships steward (Prescott) and an ex postman (Johnson), apart from the latter appearing to be a very nice bloke, can we honestly say their modest backgrounds/education ‘enriched’ this nation?
Alan Johnson in a Shadow position post crash, with a £150 billion annual budget deficit, was seen to be a potential Labour Chancellor, reading ‘Economics for Dummies’ on the way to work every morning, Did you sleep easier thinking that in 5-years an ex postman, however nice, had the complex answers to a complex country economic/debt problem?
Now re Mr Javid, I’m not sure that HE was brought up in a council home, but this white C.O.E. cookie had a similar background to him, but does THIS opinionated prairie-hat think that I had/have the qualities and education to lead this nation in complex times, no I don’t.
And by the way, to make it clear, I am not anti multi cultural, far from it as I spent my working life in a multi culture environment, with foreign clients, visiting many countries. MY objection to UK immigration in the 2000’s was it was both political and without preparation, there was no time to absorb that sheer level, without negative ONGOING consequences to the indigenous population.
So let me cut to the chase re the point of this thread, personally after a long line of post Thatcher ‘competent’ leaders, that usually did not overly impress me as a leader and/or future P.M.(and clearly I was not alone), I believe Cameron is a very good leader and P.M.
Personally I don’t care if he, or others making complex decisions went to Eaton. The rebalancing of an economy that was heading for a disaster, while trying to reduce the annual deficit AND try and put money back in peoples pockets to cope with the negative affect of earnings, in EVERY recession, takes bright people.
Do you ever hear the media go on in America because their President went to Princeton, Harvard, or M.I.T. and is therefore not equipped in life to make to right decisions for the whole country?
No you don’t, and that is because they want the brightest people running the country and intellectually equipped to come up with huge important solutions in an emergency, to sometimes override career civil servants who don’t think outside the box i.e. Fed Chairman Bernanke who dramatically increased the size and options of the Fed ‘tool box’ and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson who rescued the financial system WITHOUT nationalising U.S. banks._
Those in the Conservative Party need to just suck it up and accept that whether a woman or old Etonian, those senior politicians have to work twice as hard to be accepted by the public as being competent. Especially when taking over an economic basket case, and making the unpopular decisions other politicians who knew they had to be done, but didn’t have the political guts to address, BECAUSE they knew they’d be unpopular.
Non Eatonian Osbourne’s chancellorship will be judged by history to have been very good and although he would not have got every decision right, no one ever does whether under pressure or not, maybe one day we’ll see how many of those came from career civil servants at the Treasury.
If anyone thinks the lesser educated ‘post-man of the people’ Alan Johnson could have been a better chancellor, there is still time to prise him off the This Week couch for 2015, as I understand that Mr Miliband has a vacancy.