As MEPs take a break from Parliament this week, the Tories need to focus on what they have actually done and what they need to do. It all depends on the question of who they really represent. Given that they were elected to clear up the financial chaos left by Labor, it is unfortunate to note that the debt is higher than under Gordon Brown, the tax burden is rising and living standards are falling. We can not blame the ministers for a pandemic or a war, it is true, but the solutions of the Conservative Party are almost indistinguishable from those of the New Labor and the alternatives are rarely presented. Last week, I participated in the “baking” of Rishi Sunak by the Finance Committee and the two points I never heard were “you spend too much” and “how dare you take my voters’ money to do it”. Anger is not there. No party in Westminster represents the consumer. This is not just a crisis of philosophy, it is anti-democratic. MPs are supposed to be elected to do what their constituents want, but too many of them, once they arrive in Westminster, are absorbed in a culture that has a unified idea of what voters need, an overall plan for life that comes from the reduction of carbon. to shed enough weight to fit in a number six dress (even better if you are a guy!). Half the talk is pious nonsense that does not benefit voters other than reassuring them that their MP is spectacularly compassionate – and the more laws you pass, the more logic we have, the more money we splash, the more compassionate they seem. Therefore, the most important measure for success in 2022 is how much the Ministry of Finance spends and not the results. Where to start? The Ockenden report said more than 200 babies and nine mothers could have survived if there had been no failures at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust. During the lockdown, the government allocated about 37 37 billion for the highly ineffective Test and Trace project. He lost 9 4.9 billion in loan fraud. Not a single police officer has been fired in connection with the Rotherham child abuse scandal. And the same Interior Ministry struggling to prosecute foreign-born criminals finds it strangely difficult to leave women and children out of Ukraine. You pay for all this, and you are probably more thankful, despite Sunak’s suffering, for a combination of National Insurance changes and inflation that lures people into ever-increasing tax zones. The Chancellor, in his courtesy, says he plans to reduce income tax in 2024, which means the British government is now handing out IOU. At the same time, it also pays us 200 200 to help with electricity bills, an amount the state will later claim, which means it also has a habit of writing “UOMes”. Members get a small grant on their own. Their salaries will increase by 2.7 percent, or £ 2,212. If the government were a private company, you would change supplier. However, whether you vote for the Right or the Left, it seems that we always end up running the P&O. What is gone is the old-fashioned principle of offering us the best possible service at the lowest possible price. On the contrary, thanks to Covid, the public sector is calling for shootings from 2020, while the burden of wealth and power has been decisively removed from the individual. Does this feel like a freer society than 12 years ago? Or a happier one? Not only is paranoia and suspicion widespread, but they are encouraged (London Underground ads now warn you not to “stare”) and privacy is dead. I can remember when we were told to protect our data. Now, just to get on a train to Belgium, I need to prove my vaccine status by downloading the NHS app, sending her a photo of my driver’s license, and recording a video of my face reciting a series of numbers. Do I think the NHS will delete all this information once it is used? Gitses. I would earlier invite a raging fox to take care of the chickens. In a way, we have learned that we need a more active state, a state that is capable of, say, creating a vaccination program, just as we need some government management to ensure that we have a proper diagnostic industry. Small government does not mean “no government” but more effective government – more effective precisely because it is limited to a narrower range of tasks in which it can excel. Drawing a line under Trimalchio’s feast for a spring statement, the Tories must spend the time they have before the next election peeling off the bureaucracy where it is not needed, transferring the benefits to the people who stole it to pay for it. and find creative ways to encourage the private sphere to rejuvenate. I do not only mean the creation of new markets in the field of insurance or energy, but also the liberation of culture and technology, of faith and family, of the very things that make life worth living. On the contrary, there is a sense that under Covid the whole of society was mobilized by the state, an atmosphere of regulated tension that ended briefly at the beginning of the year only to be reactivated by Ukraine. The taxpayer must be crushed for the collective will, and suffer it as a good citizen. The ombudsman and health ombudsman told the Telegraph at the weekend that the company behind HS2 had treated residents worried about the line crossing their area, even their homes, as a “nuisance”, a picture of a literal railway that summarizes where we are. Voters, in the eyes of too many, are spreaders of disease or pollution (in the opinion of some of the older ladies who are stuck in the streets, we should even stop reproducing) and pockets of money waiting to be utilized. The paradoxical goal of conservative politics is to make politics less important in everyday life, and while it may sound desperately idealistic to expect the powerful to hand over power, unless the Tories try to reduce the state, they will eventually lose out. axioms. The time will come when the voters will finally bite and remove it.
