FULHAM ROAD — I didn’t watch the three ‘Chancellors’ debate last night. The UK’s equivalent of party Finance supremos were on Channel 4 talking about the future. The papers are full of it this morning.
In many ways.
We do tell business leaders that what they ‘do’ is as important as what they ‘say’. We encourage people to work on their empathy and “Emotional Intelligence”. But there are limits.
Business leaders still have to do a good job.
They have to make the business run soundly.
It seems that’s not the case with politicians anymore.
The papers are filled with reviews of last night’s debate that make snipping between drama critics seem like acts of Homeric scholarship.
Even smart media outlets talk about the quality of jokes and length of the applause. The posture of candidates is discussed. Any stunts that you can drag up are always good. References to Kennedy/Nixon in 1960 is helpful too.
Anything but content.
And then we get rude declamations about how people have lost interest and don’t vote any more.
Throw us a bone.
/df
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