'Philosopher King' Philip Blond actually works for David Cameron, but he is one of the few real thinkers within this new breed of Conservatism. Add to that Blond's earlier studies of theology and you have a decent man with a good degree and a god fearing upbringing. His political views - even though he works for Cameron - follow suit. In his new book Red Tory, Blond sets out to describe how both the Right and the Left has Broken Britain, not just Labour, as the Tories claim.
According to Blond there has been "a wholesale collapse of British culture, virtue and belief", which has led to an "increasing fear, lack of trust and abundance of suspicion, long-term increase in violent crime, loneliness, recession, depression, private and public debt, family break-up, divorce, infidelity, bureaucratic and unresponsive public services, dirty hospitals, powerlessness, the rise of racism, excessive paperwork, longer and longer working hours, children who have no parents... seemingly immovable poverty, the permanence of inequality, teenagers with knives, teenagers being knifed, the decline of politeness, aggressive youths, the erosion of our civil liberties and the increase of obsessive surveillance, public authoritarianism, private libertarianism, general pointlessness, political cynicism and a pervading lack of daily joy".
It is not pretty but it is true. This has to be changed, and even though Blond will be voting for Cameron on the 6th of May, he is on to something very T4L when he says that there is no other way forward than for Britain to subscribe to the idea of a "religious ideas of a transcendent God".
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