Guy Herbert has a good article here about how timid the proposed regulatory cuts are and the massive increase in government spending on bureaucracy this country has suffered under Labour.
Added with the fact that regulatory compliance costs have not been measured these cuts in regulation are not that big.
Given that there is no cut in spending, there is no cut in taxation and there’s no cut in tax revenues as well as this being a report from a working group not party policy why is the world aflame with ‘Tory lurch to the right’ stories? It looks like everyone has fallen for the Government and its media line…
It looks to me that there are some sensible proposals here. What the LibDems should have done is stood up and said ‘good try guys, there’s some good ideas, but these bits don’t work and its a bit timid’ and suggested our own set of bureaucratic spending cuts.
We are meant to be liberals, that means in this country wanting to limit the size of government. Even if we support the current welfare state, there’s still a huge number of places to cut the state back.
