Ieuan Dolby

And now Britian needs a Dynamic Leader!



Posted: Wednesday, November 05, 2008

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It was amazing to watch the elections unfold in America and I must admit, although I find it teeth-extracting to do so, that America and the Americans managed to do do something right for once.

They went to the polls and they voted overwhelmingly for a leader who they could be proud of.

This was as black and white as any result was every going to get.

After-all, what is a leader, what do people want in a leader? In answer to my very own question I would say, a leader is somebody to believe in and a powerful body that takes everything in his/her stride. Somebody to follow when times are tough and somebody who has some answers when nobody else does and somebody who acts decisively whether right or wrong, somebody to believe and trust in when the clouds threaten and who is always there doing something and not simply arguing about it with some pasty-faced opposition party-member! A leader is a man or woman, black or white, who takes us by the hand that we have given!

And what does Britain have?

We have a leader who acted decisively during the peak of the credit crunch but he is certainly not somebody that I would follow into battle! He looks terrible, as if the weight of responsibility has degraded him into a shell of a human, he speaks slowly and with deliberation, he brings himself down by sparring with a pasty opposition and he generally is not somebody that I would follow right or wrong simply because he does not bestow faith even to those who still believe.

And the troubling thing is that he is the best we have got around! Is there nobody out there, no dynamic person who could take Britain forward? Is there no true leader waiting in the curtains, a human that doesn't remind us all of a wet-blanket?

Sadly no, but if there is somebody that fits the description of a leader please stand-up and make yourself known now.

We desperately need you!
Ieuan Dolby is the Author and Webmaster of The Scribbling Mariners. As a Chief Engineer in the Merchant Navy he has sailed the world for twenty years on a variety of rust buckets and state of the art vessels. Now living in Edinburgh, Scotland with his wife and son he writes about cultures across the globe and life as he sees it; a seafarers escapades with a few tall tales thrown in for good measure! Further articles and photographs of his travels can be found at his blog The Seadolby Articles and Tall Tales.

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