I’ve always been an advocate of the ordinary person— the man on the street. At Cambridge, I took a sociology paper in the ‘Everyman’, and I read pretty broadly around the subject, let me tell you. It lead me to some really great exam results, but also to a revelation. I love the everyman. And I don’t mean that in a gay way. As an everyman-lover, I’m pretty happy about the big wins for the Tea Party movement in the Mid Terms. As Rand Paul, new senator for Kentucky, put it in his victory speech, the Tea Party is real angry at Washington for spending while “ordinary Americans had to tighten their belts”. This is from the state that invented KFC, makers of sandwiches with fried chicken instead of bread. They are not used to tightening their belts.
Could we, on this side of the pond, ever find a political saviour like Sarah Palin? I’ll admit that it seems unlikely that a bunch of media-savvy, cut-loving, small-state conservatives appealing vaguely to ‘common sense’ could ever be elected in Britain. But I sense that even here, in what is essentially a Marxist state presided over by Greg Dyke (is there any proof that he actually ‘no longer works at the BBC’?), the everyman is on the rise. After a leadership debate at last election campaign, I heard a Radio 4 ‘ordinary person’ discussion where a housewife from Bristol summed up her dislike of Brown—“someone reeling off numbers about what they’re going to do when just means nothing to me”. Yes. Exactly. You can’t fool us sensible Englanders with ‘facts’, or by disclosing your ‘plans’, or by openly committing yourself to certain ‘actions’, like the Joker out of the Dark Knight.
Just like the rise of the Tea Party in America, here in this most English of islands the everyman has to start standing up for himself against the fascist liberal left. In America, when Obama extended healthcare to 30 million extra people, just like he ‘promised’ to do in his ‘election pledge’, it took a brave few to stand up and say ‘No.’ Like the soldiers on the Normandy beaches, our American cousins fought on bravely, with a vague and noble plan to cut as much spending as possible. This is our time, Britain, to do the same. We need to embrace broad and ambiguous ideas like the Big Society, which is about “people in their everyday lives”. Everyday lives. Not the weird, number-filled half-lives of the left. According to sources who reckon it to be the case, Ed Miliband’s actual vision is just a sequence of green numbers, like what happens in The Matrix. Is that the kind of future we want for our kids? I certainly don't. Because I believe that every child is ordinary.
