2026-06-15
This is not party political.
It is about the art of turning around the Great Oil Tanker of State - or it would be if the State had any oil tankers left. Turning the wind farm doesn't somehow achieve the required rhetorical imagery, so we'll stick with the oil tanker metaphor.
An oil tanker requires a lot of seascape to turn around. It's a big ship with a lot of directional momentum. It's a big job; unlike turning a sailing yacht, which might still be tricky but can be accomplished very quickly - possibly too quickly!
As such, the horizon of required viewing is much further away than the proximate electoral clash, and it permits the viewing of a whole battlefield rather than an isolated skirmish.
With an electoral system based on a five-year cycle, the number seasoned politicos with the required depth of experience to make sense of the whole is already small - the number who remain independent of vested interests but still willing to share their wisdom is almost vanishingly small.
We are privileged to hear them.
