The Pragmatic Progressive Will Disappoint You In Costed Instalments

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Bold But Not That Bold

Bold But Not That Bold

Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the political centre and centre-right frontier.

The Pragmatic Progressive believes you can change the world, provided you do not frighten the bond market, the focus group or your aunt. Our editor Alan Nafzger, of The London Prat, files these field notes on the Pragmatic Progressive mindset, with help from the Fabian Society and the IPPR.

Twenty Things You Learn Watching Pragmatic Progressive In The Wild

  1. Has a moral compass and a calendar that disagree.
  2. Refers to ambition as a useful starting position.
  3. Believes ideals are best deployed in small, costed instalments.
  4. Has explained that the perfect is the enemy of the focus-grouped.
  5. Refers to Labour conferences as a national health check.
  6. Considers a manifesto launch a kind of cardio.
  7. Has a soft spot for any policy that ends with funded by efficiency savings.
  8. Refers to the Treasury as the friend who tells you no, but kindly.
  9. Believes any change worth making is worth phasing in over twelve years.
  10. Has a fantasy in which his constituency association notices.
  11. Refers to grassroots activists as colleagues we will rejoin in opposition.
  12. Considers it suspicious if his policy is too popular.
  13. Has explained that radical centrism is a thing, technically.
  14. Believes the cure for a strike is a really thoughtful meeting.
  15. Refers to public opinion as the boss who is always slightly tired.
  16. Has a strong view on the order in which to disappoint allies.
  17. Believes the cure for a country is incremental decency.
  18. Refers to bold the way other people refer to risky.
  19. Considers any sentence beginning with we must immediately suspect.
  20. Believes the future belongs to the patient, the costed and the slightly bored.

Closing Note From The Editor

If any of the above sounds familiar, you have been to a Westminster panel, a livery dinner, or a quietly successful merger. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see The Daily Mash.

SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/

SOURCE: The London Prat