So why may this book be of interest to voters in Warrington South? Probably because they are unhappy about their taxes being used to provide expensive consultants with lavish lifestyles that allow them to become full time politicians to fight the election.
Of the three candidates in this election two have benefited from the public sector consultancy gravy train. David Mowat earned enough at Accenture to retire early, devote his time to charity and to funding himself to fight a target Parliamentary seat.
Brainy Nick Bent has spent his entire career working in the even more abstract world of think tanks, spin doctoring and political advising. He is a proud member of GMB (originally the General Municipal and Boilermakers union) which no doubt now has a special branch for spin-doctors, advisers and allied workers and has been campaigning full time since his adoption.
Dr Jo Crotty, no less brainy than the other two, at least has a real job, teaching real students in a university and has a formidable research record in the economics of sustainability as well as fighting for the residents of the ward she represents on Warrington Borough Council.
Jo has been campaigning hard for Warrington South and representing her constituents in Bewsey alongside her university duties. She doesn’t have the luxury of Ashcroft or Union money that the other candidates are now bickering about.
Only Jo offers the opportunity to vote for Real Change. The Liberal Democrats are the only party that has consistently opposed the consultants’ gravy trains, the off balance sheet accounting of PFI, and the New Labour obsession with forcing the use of both.
So if you want an end to the ping pong politics, and they really do pong, of the two old parties that have colluded in plundering the public sector, vote Jo, vote Liberal Democrat.