Saturday, October 17, 2009

A David Brooks column worth reading

His effort from yesterday's New York Times: "The Reality Moment". Brooks wrote about the UK's likely next Prime Minister Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Conservative Party Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, whose party is rising in the polls in Britain not by promising tax cuts or more transfer payments but by being honest about its country's fiscal condition and the austerity measures needed to remedy it. There are other lessons American conservatives can learn from Osborne and his party. Worth reading.

Incidentally, Bloomberg TV featured a profile of Osborne recently, who has had something of a meteoric political career so far (he's still in his thirties).

3 comments:

trumwill said...

You mean the next Chancellor? I think David Cameron has the PM spot lined up.

DaveinHackensack said...

You're right. Thanks for that correction. Post edited accordingly.

Anonymous said...

The BNP is on the rise also.