"There is a reason why I have been using this ridiculous, high-falutin language."....letwin.....
- From: abelard <abelard3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 16:05:29 +0200
for those who still mistakenly imagine that cameron is just another
empty shell like bliar/brown
here is the heart of tory policy thinking......
it is chalk from cheese and sets out the fundamental tory distaste for
bliar/clown socialism....
any person who can think clearly will realise the natural changes
in policy that this analysis prefigures....
it is not yet clarified in rhetoric for electioneering but the
objectives are very clear....
it is the usual choice between individual freedom and socialist
statist collectivism
http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=136653&speeches=1
"There is a reason why I have been using this ridiculous, high-falutin
language.
I want to make the point that ridiculous high-falutin language is not
the sole prerogative of Gordon Brown with his post neo-classical
endogenous growth theory...
Nor of David Miliband with his "emphasis on the value of equality and
solidarity...supplemented by renewed commitment to the extension of
personal autonomy in an increasingly interdependent world".
You shouldn't think that, just because someone uses complicated words,
they have a coherent theory. And you shouldn't think that, just
because someone tries, most of the time to speak in plain English,
they don't have a theory.
Cameron Conservatives have a strong attachment to plain English. That
is because we think that it is easier to think clearly in clear
language. But this has misled some people who think that theories come
in complicated language to think we haven't got one.
And my point is that, despite our general preference for plain
language, we do have a theory. It can be expressed (as I have just
expressed it) in complicated language. It can also be expressed (as I
am about to do) in much simpler terms."
....
And as a recent report from UNICEF showed - a report which put Britain
at the bottom of the international league table for the well-being of
children - it's not that Britain is the sick man of Europe; we're
becoming the sick family of Europe...The mission of the modern
Conservative Party, could not be clearer. It is to bring about
Britain's social revival: to improve the quality of life for everyone
in our country, increasing our well-being, not just our wealth."
....
The provision-theory accepts the free market as the engine of economic
growth. But, just as Clause 4 socialism once saw the state as the
proper provider of goods and services through ownership of the means
of production, so the provision-theorists of Brownian New Labour see
the state as the proper provider of public services and of well-being
through direction and control.
The tell-tale marks of provision-theory are to be seen in much of the
record of the last ten years - the targets and directives, the
reorganisations, schemes and initiatives. Direct government
intervention has been brought - with the best of intentions, though
often with notable lack of practical success - to bear on schools and
hospitals, police officers and neighbourhoods, local authorities and
universities...
The state has been seen as the source of enlightened social action,
just as it was once seen as the source of enlightened economic action.
....
The first intuition is that human enterprise, initiative, vocation and
morale are the things that lead to progress and sustainable success in
the socio-environmental sphere, just as in the economic sphere. The
second, allied intuition is that command and control systems
eventually fall under their own weight because they stifle enterprise,
initiative, vocation and morale.
And the third intuition is that a framework which leads people to
internalise their social responsibilities and to fulfil those
responsibilities of their own volition in their own ways is
accordingly a much more powerful engine for sustained
socio-environmental success than direct government control.
regards.....
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