Politics is changing – because it must

Lawrence Newport has a very interesting CAPX piece on what appears to be the terminal decline of UK politics dominated by traditional political parties. Terminal because far too few decent, honest and able people want to join in.  

Newport is co-founder of a political organisation called Looking for Growth (LFG) which may or may not succeed in its aims, but the whole piece is well worth reading as a reminder of the need for major political change. 

Our politicians won’t save Britain. We will

• We are living through a turning point in British political history
• The current lack of effective political leadership poses a unique opportunity
• Britain has rescued itself in the past, and it can again

Politics is changing – because it must.

We are living through a turning point in British political history. The two main parties that have dominated the 20th century are now in a state of crisis so deep that there are good reasons to suspect that they might collapse into oblivion. They are seen to have ignored voters, ignored principles and been unwilling to take actions to once again ensure Britain can actually be run effectively by its leaders. But out of this failure, and this gap in leadership, new movements and platforms are emerging, and new crowds are entering politics that never would have considered doing so before.

Last Thursday, at the O2 Indigo Theatre, Looking for Growth (LFG), of which I am a co-founder, gathered a crowd of 1,300 people. It brought together speakers from across the political spectrum and from those outside of politics: Matt Clifford, Liv Boeree, Labour MPs Chris Curtis and Sarah Coombes, Conservative MP Katie Lam, Reform MP Danny Kruger, Marc Warner, Dominic Cummings and the TS Domestics (a group that has been cleaning their local area because their council has failed to do so). These speakers came together to make the case for one cause: growing the British economy with radical ideas that speak to changing the very roots of government.