Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Politics is a nasty business. Even though one might wish that it was run along the […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. There can be little doubt that Margaret Thatcher won the battle of ideas in the 1980s. […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. In the same way that an important maxim of politics is that one should not make […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. It has often been remarked that the Conservative Party is a broad church. Over the years […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. This is another timely maxim, given David Cameron’s recent attack on those who support UKIP (whom […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. The eighth Rule is a variation on the maxim: “don’t get mad, get even”. Norman Tebbit […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Number 7: Don’t fire all your ammunition at once. This is one of the golden rules […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Number 6: A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear […]
British Conservatives differ in many ways from our American cousins. During the 1980s, however, much store was laid on the fact that both Thatcherism and Reaganomics stressed the importance of individuals exercising as much power over their own lives as possible (particularly in the economic sphere). A by-product of this approach, coupled with record levels […]
This Rule encourages teamwork among the conservative movement. Activists with ideas, drive and leadership skills are all well and good but the building of a coherent conservative movement requires loyalty between its members. As with the previous Rule, the development of cliques and petty jealousies has been the ruin of many a strong university branch, […]
This Rule is particularly relevant to student activists or those heavily involved in local Conservative associations. All too often, university branches or local associations become embroiled in intrigue, back-biting and infighting. Instead of focussing on the damage being done to their fellow students’ education, the waste of taxpayers’ money or the decline in local services […]
This is a Rule that all of us overlook frequently. In politics, as in life, one can never achieve everything one sets out to achieve. Life and politics are a matter of give and take. Compromise is frequently a necessity. This Rule provides that it is better to achieve 50% of what one hoped to […]
"Being right in the sense of being correct is not sufficient to win. Political technology determines political success. Learn how to organize and how to communicate. Most political technology is philosophically neutral. You owe it to your philosophy to study how to win." Elections are not won by being philosophically pure. Education vouchers, a flat […]
Each week the co-founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, will be sharing some of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the founder of the Leadership Institute, an organisation founded in 1979 whose mission is to increase the number and effectiveness of conservative public policy leaders. […]
Every week the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation, Donal Blaney, explains one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process. Morton Blackwell is the Founder and President of the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Political activists are volunteers. Most have busy lives – juggling an increasingly hectic work/life balance. The […]