Priti 4 Witham

Having been a blog free zone for the past few weeks (due to day job demands), I have emerged from my business haze just as the UK political scene gears itself up for what could well be an action packed autumn (and yes, I know that it is still apparently summer!). However, amidst all the speculation of a snap election and the daily political spats we read about, I have been waiting patiently to see some ‘inspirational political leadership’ – the type of leadership which is prepared to look beyond the immediate six to twelve months and provide a real vision as to how we can  tackle some of the serious problems faced by our country today. Which is why I welcome the signal by David Cameron today to focus on the current social challenges facing Britain and on the problem he describes as our ‘broken society’. With issues of violent crime (just look back to those dreadful murders last week), social breakdown and yobbish behaviour threatening the way we all live our lives, I believe that we need real political courage and leadership to create a vision which leads to lasting change in this area. Recent political decision making (under Labour) has been dominated by short termism, getting a quick headline and generating an instant feel-good factor leading to the impression that the problem has been addressed – not exactly the right way to determine public policy. I believe that David Cameron is more than determined to address the area of social breakdown. The challenge  now for the Party will be to outline the long term policy measures which can address this breakdown, whilst articulating a positive vision of the type of society we  could all live in if this breakdown ended. Now that to me would be inspirational leadership .