The way ahead.
You might, like me, be under the impression that the last 13 wasted years of Tory government have been such a disaster because of huge cuts to the size and capability of the state, unaffordable tax cuts, slashed benefits, under funding of vital services, a lack of a sensible economic or industrial policy, a failure to regulate key industries, and the exit from the EU.
But apparently it is all down to a big interventionist state, which has tried to pick winners and the dominance of the idea that the government knows best. We are, it seems, at risk of centralised economic planning and know-it-all regulation.
It is this that has produced flat or negative income growth, declining social cohesion and the highest levels of tax since the war.
And it must be true because this is the opinion of Jacob Rees Mogg and Lord Frost. Two members of the most radical, small state, austerity loving, budget slashing, regulation hating administration in modern British history.
But apparently Britain needs “rebuilding” and “the work will be a marvel when it is done”.
Doubtless many of us agree that the country needs rebuilding but not despite the best efforts of Lord Frost and Jacob Rees Mogg but because of them.
I strongly suspect this is an attempt to seize the political momentum in a defeated Tory party after the next election. But if the Tories win and they still stand a good chance; these people want to double down on Brexit and austerity and everything else.
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media