Cruddas-Purnell encore une fois: a dream ticket or are its champions on a sticky wicket? Herewith one more sign that it's the former (the blog equivalent of, "and another thing...").
Cruddas spoke at a Demos event yesterday on whether or not the UK had become, by stealth, a republic (search me, I wasn't there - but it's on their website).
At the end, speakers were asked who they thought the best modern day republican was - though the criteria had reportedly become, by the point questions were being asked, who the most civic-minded politician was (communitarian terms rather than anti-monarchy). That is, which British MP holds most strongly to the view that people enjoy rights through participating in a society rather than the Liberal view which is that people are protected by inalienable rights.
The panel included such panjandrums as David Marquand & Stuart White - men far more at liberty to name a living politician and not have it chalked up as a budding alliance... but they refused / couldn't say. Cruddas said Purnell.
To borrow someone else's words: "curiouser and curiouser". I will now stop chewing away at this bone.
