He's just announced a £1m prize in a competition to design a website to "harness the collective wisdom of the British people" when it comes to policy-making.
He said on the Today Programme: "What we are trying to find is: is there a way that we can use the internet - it's a means to an end not an end in itself - to try and avoid some of these howlers so a future Conservative government can not just have good policy ideas but execute policy in a much more considered and thought-through way."
Six months from an election, you'd think a party trying to present itself as a government in-waiting would be screaming policy from the rooftops.
Rewind to six months before the 1997 Labour landslide and this was exactly what New Labour were dishing out in spades, as John Major's cabinet stared into the abyss.
What are the Townies (Turnip Taliban-esque Freudian slip...) saying? Vote us in and we'll give a million to the person who can come up with the whizziest idea to harness the internet to show us what to do.
Words fail.
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Yes I fear a Heath type government with Cameron well meaning but just no idea. What real world have Brown, Cameron and Clegg ever been in.
ReplyDeleteI hope I am wrong but at least the Tories will change their leader unlike Labour.