Political Reality
It’s election time here in the UK and reading the papers is like using a deoderant as a flame thrower. They both need a big health warning.
In today’s Sunday Times, Rod Liddle on Zac Goldsmith. According (big pinch of salt) to Rod, Zac’s anti-campaigning. He’s banging on doors and telling the truth.
The headline, “Listen posh boy, answers don’t win you votes” introduces “the real world”. The premise being that politicians can’t be honest. The system precludes it.
The real world, of course, is chapter one of 37Signal’s latest book, Rework. They assert straight up that you have to ignore it. Perhaps Zac’s reading a copy in the toilet.
It’s an intriguing sub plot. As Nick Clegg has shown, there’s a big appetite for “anti-politics”. Zac vs the redoubtable Susan Kramer will be worth watching, if only to gauge how “real people” respond to the truth in the “real world”.
