The main effect of his efforts will be to persuade younger left-wing people not to vote.
Politics is bad at dealing with such intangible things as people’s psychology; bad at encompassing and promoting real belief systems; bad at emotional intelligence.
Scotland’s referendum proves that our democratic system can engage voters. Yes, it needs to change. But let’s not fall into the American-style trap of denigrating it .
Conservatives are not the mouthpiece of the ‘already haves’; we are the party for all those who aspire to have, and to do, and to be.
Politics must adapt to new ways, and fast. In my view it is an obvious and necessary reform to move voting online.
About half fall into the ‘engageable’ and about half into the ‘rejectionist’ category, according to British Future’s analysis of polling and research.
The current political divides do not reflect the reality of the public’s difference of opinion.
A nation gets the government it deserves, it is said – what do we get if voters just shrug?
I think the future could be bright – but we need to go to them, since they won’t come to us.