Douglas Carswell's Blog

Blunted Radicalism

The current administration's approach to the economy is part of "a failed Brownite consensus", writes Fraser Nelson in today's Telegraph. Ministers will be "borrowing more over five years than Labour did over 13". Link to follow.

The Treasury, he continues, is "locked in the old way of thinking", which is still "hard-wired with assumptions" from when Gordon Brown was in charge.

The radicalism has been blunted. The steady-as-she-sinks mandarinate have been given free rein. Bold ideas vetoed.

Regular readers will recognise that these are points this blog has been making for sometime.

Perhaps, Fraser goes on, ""you have to go through Heath to get to Thatcher". That is to say, tinkering has to be tried, and failed, before the Conservative Party reaches for radicalism".

I fear it may take a Winter of Discontent-type shock to the system to shake the political elite from their cozy assumptions.

We need radical change to lift our country off her knees. It is not just the constraints of Coalition holding us back.

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