Times Are A’Changing
The headline yesterday in the Evening Standard was ‘Bank Crisis to Hit Taxpayers.’ Just about every day at the moment the news for the Government is bad.
By contrast last night there was a Conservative City Circle reception at which David Cameron spoke. There were 1250 acceptances and he was very enthusiastically received. As he observed, when Margaret Thatcher won in 1979, she had to fix the broken economy. Today our society is broken, with violence and dysfunctionality its hallmarks. That Eurostar advertisement of a yobbish looking man urinating is supposedly an amusing insight into contemporary Britain. Manneken Pis he is not.
David Cameron was mobbed after his speech. People present felt that they were in the presence of the next Prime Minister and dozens told me this afterwards. It cannot come too soon!