万花筒 Kaleidoscope 2007-06-05&06, Blair和Cameron的超级精彩对话（在线收听）

The Government is now paralyzed? We've got a Home Secretary [John Reid], yeah, a Home Secretary splitting his department but he's already resigned. We've got a Foreign Secretary [Margaret Beckett] negotiating a European treaty that she won't be around to ratify and we've got a Prime Minister who even after the last week's drubbing simply doesn't understand that it's over. Everybody knows who the next Labor leader is, and thank God he's got out of his blacked-out limo and come to the House of Commons. Why does the country have to put up with another seven weeks of paralysis?

I will tell on what I will be concentrated in the next seven weeks, that is, policy, the policies for the economy and health and educationand law and order. And if I can give him some advice: if I were him, I would concentrate on policy, too. Because I have something else to inform the House of. Yesterday, there was the leading policy speech by the right hon, by the Member for West Dorset [Mr. Letwin], in charge of their policy commission. It was a speech entitled, "Is Cameron Conservatism just a set of attitudes, or is it a political theory?", asks Oliver Letwin. And here is the answer, "Cameron Conservatism is an attempt to shift the theory of the State from a provision-based paradigm to a framework-based paradigm. The provision-the provision theory of the modern State being the successor to socialism in the post-Marxist era.” concluding with the words, concluding with, concluding with the words, "It all goes back to Marx." That is Groucho [Groucho Marx], I assume.

Soon, soon, the Prime Minister is gonna have plenty of time to read all our speeches, but he just does not get it. This is the Government of the living dead. Why do we have to put up with even more paralysis?

This is a Government that has run the strongest economy this country has seen in10 years. Just last week, health service waiting lists again down. The best school results this country has ever seen, and living standards for every section of the population up. And he can be as cocky as he likes about the local elections; come a general election, it's policy that counts. And on policy, we win and he loses.
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