Douglas Carswell's Blog

Where's the beef?

One day it's going to be 2015, and a General Election will be looming.

Imagine if public debt was still growing, but not the economy?

What if in two or three years time we've still not reduced immigration or reformed Human Right law?

Nor cut the number of quangos? Nor brought back powers from Brussels?

Perhaps the Downing Street Nudge Unit might then pull some last minute policy pledge out of the hat to save the day? Traffic cones online, rather than a traffic cones hotline, perhaps? One should never underestimate the radicalism of ex-McKinsey mandarins.

Alternatively, now might be the time to abandon the Treasury's failed stimulus orthodoxy. The moment to fight the kleptocratic corporatist interests that snuff out free markets. The occasion to take on the judicial activists and the Whitehall mandarinate. And to do these things with restless urgency.

If we aren't prepared to fight the oligarchy that has run Britain into the ground, I fear that in 2015 Ed Miliband will paint us as being part of it.

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