I am not a particularly political person. I have never belonged, properly, to a political party and my voting has followed the candidate rather than the colour of the Party they stand for. So who am I to comment? I am more interested in how problems are solved and in how individuals who inevitably represent a variety of views are brought together to this end. This, of itself, I find brings you more into the realm of politics and how politics is done and needs to be done. Here I see a disjuncture between what is and what needs to be, with what is getting in the way of what needs to be whilst also recognizing the necessary direction of travel. Yet that recognition can be reluctant to take on what is really required that it is almost totally obscured. So new ideas (The Big Society, Gordon Brown’s ‘Big Conversation) and new Parties (or potential Parties) get so far before running into the sand or being remade to reclaim more traditional values. It all makes progress impossible or glacial when the press of events is calling for something much more immediate. This should still be something evolutionary rather than revolutionary but should equally be responsive to the outer imperatives. Political insiders are both best placed, and worst placed, to see this and to do something about it. It requires a view from the crowd. And it really requires a child’s view where tradition has not yet placed scales upon his eyes. Such a view is what will be attempted here. Further posts will elaborate on what this means and how it may proceed.