...........a bold proposition festooned around the Manchester conference centre this week.
Putting aside the uneasy feeling that we might hear more about taking Britain apart , especially bankers and the wealthy who are obviously all evil, don't pay taxes and don't deserve their money unless they won it on a talent show or are footballers, this headline surely invites the retort :"Who wrecked it" in the first place. The stock answer from the main perpetrators will be the usual "Bankers, Lehman Bros " etc but however much they duck or deny the issue the reality is that UK plc was already in dead trouble before the banking crisis simply because since prudence was forsaken in 2000, Brown and Blair, had been on a massive binge for which they and their succesors remain largely unrepentant.
A new opportunity now opens up for the Conservatives to pick up a similar but different ball labelled "Redesign Britain" . Ed Balls' promised root and branch spending review were he to get into power opens the way to this far more than it does to rebuilding something that in many ways wasn't working very well anyway. As union-entramelled Ed Miliband doesn't look like picking that one up, the way is clear for Cameron & Co to say (silently) "Thanks Ed " and regain the initiative.
Will they? Won't they? Come on Dave. Time to revitalise the troops and lead a new "Get a Grip" version of his party into real thinking.......and action. There is a nation of bored, distrustful (of all politicians) and sceptical voters out there waiting for someone to pick up this sort of ball and run forwards, not backwards as Miliband Minor promises.
