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Rishi Sunak: Britain’s Next Prime Minister?
Tectonic plates are shifting right before our very eyes and a change at the very top is imminent in the United Kingdom.
The Conservative and Unionist party, is a consortium of extremely powerful interests. Newspaper barons, multi-national CEOs, hedge fund managers, global commodity traders, venture capitalists and Silicon valley players are among those who currently fund the most successful party in the history of western democracy.
Unlike the Labour party, which tends to view its leaders, successful or otherwise rather sentimentally, for this has certainly been the case for the likes of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Harold Wilson, Clement Atlee, James Callaghan and Ramsey-McDonald. The Tories (the sobriquet for the British Conservatives),on the other hand, have always been driven by the politics of pragmatism. In its two hundred of existence, its organizing principle, its raison d’etre has been underpinned by that one word — pragmatism.
Pragmatism, as prescribed by Niccolo Machiavelli, in his magnum opus — The Prince. Pragmatism, in the winning of power and doing all that it can within its might to retain power.
It was indeed the politics of pragmatism, which made it very easy for the party to dump Margaret Thatcher, its most successful leader ever, when she had fully expended her usefulness…