TheLesson WeShould Draw From Eastleigh Farago

Everyone is talking about the problem with the political parties and trust but I think the problem is much more fundamental than that.It is the system itself that is at fault but no one dare discuss it because it would mean a paradigm shift in how we look at politics and what the role of the State actually is and there are too many vested interests who do not want that debate. Anyone who raises this issue is thus parodied as a lunatic.What system am I referring too?Why, the system that is not even named correctly ie what we actually have and have had for over 70 years - the Mixed Economy.It is that that does not work,never has worked and never will work because it is based on a contradiction that you can mix Socialism and Capitalism and have a happy result. How can we begin to find a solution to our problems when we have not even identified and diagnosed them properly and traced their cause?It is this fog of unknowing,this incoherence of the debate that has us going round in circles spouting plattitudes and offering bromide like solutions about brands and suchlike.The felon in the dock should be the Mixed economy but the Left with the default silence of Conservatives have put Capitalism in the dock and that is the Conservatives gravest sin.Who will argue for Capitalism and defend it from its multifarious enemies? Certainly not intellectual pygmies like the hapless Mr Tim Montgomerie.Who was it said,'all that it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing'?