“The rhetoric of both men (Cameron and Blond) seems to be shot through with plaintive rural nostalgia for the small, self-contained life of the village; for a world where ‘frontline services’ are ‘delivered’ from within the community by the church, the WI and the Over Sixties Club, where no one dies unnoticed by his neighbours, the pub serves as a nightly local parliament, ‘ethos’ is reinforced by the vicar in the pulpit of St Stephen’s and ‘mutuality’ flourishes in the gossip at the shop.’ from Jonathan Raban’s review of Red Tory. Might be just the ticket at this conjuncture in South Dublin.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n08/jonathan-raban/camerons-crank
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Comment on Reform Alliance, where next? by CL
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