I’m indebted to my friend Neill Harvey-Smith for summing up the British attitude to politics in just three sentences: I don’t know what it is. It sounds like a good idea. It probably won’t work.
That’s in response to this:
And you know what? Most of the time, I don’t know what it is. It sounds like a good idea. It probably won’t work is neither a dumb nor an irrational approach. But you can see why, in this instance at least, it might frustrate David Cameron and Steve Hilton.
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