On Saturday the Tories elected a new Party leader. That’s nice. But will he lead?
There has been no effective Opposition for at least a decade. Nor has leadership
come from the Government benches over the same period, either.
When
the economy is going well, business is booming and employment rates are high,
leadership of all kinds — especially political leadership — is a commodity
taken for granted. Governments play an important role in this economy, even if
far too often it is with a negative effect.
Perhaps
it is in the nature of societies to think that things happen for no particular
reason.
Truth
is, that’s rarely the case.
The
inability to lead, to be proactive, to have a nose for crisis, and to be
willing to undergo the stress of intervention, is at the heart of the Liberal Government’s
latest crisis, too.
