The FT this morning flagged up the Labour leader's call for all the main parties to hold talks on how to resolve the thorny issue of social care, which has come to a head in the last week over the crisis at Southern Cross.
"Mr Miliband will now ask the Tories and Lib Dems to come to the table for apolitical discussions; the time has come for the parties to stop “playing party politics” with the issue."The BBC confirms that the PM is all for it:
David Cameron welcomed Mr Miliband's call for cooperation on the issue.
He said: "This is a very difficult issue to get right as a country - the long-term costs of social care, how we share those costs, how we pay for them.
"If there is an opportunity for cross-party work on that, I thoroughly welcome it.
This is gratifying news indeed for those of us who have been banging this apolitical drum; and it is a rebuke to a certain Conservative local government leader who at the election count a month ago derided apolitical democracy as a foolish contradiction in terms.
The time for this movement is a-coming in.
Cross-posted to Apolitical Blog.
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