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I don’t know about where you are, but our politicians here in Britain keep talking about aspiration. The Tories talked about it all the time during the last government, they continued talking about it during the recent general election too.
Now that Labour has lost it all, they, too, all of sudden are talking aspiration!
As noted in the Guardian ‘The word has been used by Tony Blair, in his prescription for what Labour should do next; “Labour has to be for ambition and aspiration as well as compassion and care,” he wrote, in the immediate wake of the party’s election defeat. In an interview that same weekend, Liz Kendall, who is running for the leadership, echoed Blair’s comments, saying, “we need to show people that we understand their aspirations and ambitions for the future, and if you look right across England, we did not do enough to appeal to Conservative supporters, and we must”.
‘And Andy Burnham, one of the frontrunners in the race, spoke of aspiration when he launched his bid. He said the party’s challenge was to rediscover the beating heart of Labour, “and that is about the aspirations of everyone, speaking to them like we did in 1997 ... giving every single person the dream of a better life, about helping all of our businesses, small and large, to get on and grow”.
In the Guardian’s article, four writers explain what the word means to them.*
Below is my take on aspiration and what it means to me.
I aspire to imagine a better world: A world for the common good. I hope this might be your aspiration too:
- Our grandparents were wiser about markets than today’s economists and regulators
- Why Economics Needs the Common Good?
- Economics, Globalisation and the Common Good: A Lecture at London School of Economics
- The Youth for the Common Good to Build a Better World
- The Economics of Fools that Won the Day on 7 May 2015
- UK General Election 2015- Why the Progressives failed so badly?
- “The challenge is to agree on how to use our powers for the common good”