Benjamin Barber writing in today's Guardian makes the case for our current market difficulties focussing on decades of eroded trust and democracy. He concludes:
The lesson? The remedy today lies not simply in de-leveraging but in re-democratising. Recreate social capital and trust will follow.
That's been my cracked bell for the last five years. Now I'm a member of Labour's NEC I intend to clang it more loudly. If we want to win the next election, we practice what we preach and start by redemocratising the Labour Party.