She makes a lot of speeches, this Prime Minister. But it is all talk and no delivery. So the break through of Florence becomes the latest deadlock in Brussels. It is a long and boring story which today we will skip. The latest effort, much trailed for delivery at the Bank of England, extols the free market economy. Why, when there are clear problems of inequality, asset inflation, low productivity and chronic austerity, do that? You may well ask. The answer is it that is what she was brought up to, skipping barefoot through the cornfields. It is all she knows. She turns out to be somewhat wooden and rather dull.
By contrast her rival, Jeremy Corbyn, who began as a no hoper, a fruitcake pedaling yesterday’s ideas, has become the man of the moment with rock star status, pulling thousands to cheer him wherever he goes. He declares the present model of capitalism broken, failing the many, while enriching the few. His party has now moved back to its socialist roots pulling the centre with it, finding its lost voters, millions of them, and adding members so that it has more than all the other political parties in the UK put together. It has just had its most successful conference for a generation and in the words of its leader is poised for power. Power to change and the confidence and courage to change almost everything.
This Blog has supported Corbyn from the beginning. In May 2016 I published Turn Left To Power. Almost all of it is now official Labour practice and policy.
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