Disappointment

One of the joys of being alive when Maggie won the first of her general elections in 1979 is that you knew she had every intention of fulfilling her mandate. In many ways she was even better than one could have hoped for with her greatest claim to fame being the reverse of Britain's decline into senility connived at by previous governments of left and right. Maggie did not accept the argument that you could not change anything as it would upset people if you carried out your beliefs. She went ahead and did those things which needed doing to get us back to a 'can do' society. Maggie believed in Hayekian economic policies, deregulation and flexible labour markets. Her beliefs are worth reviving since (a) the soggy economics we live by are not going to be robust enough to allow us too weather the euro storm that is coming our way, (b) the EU is wrapping us up in so much regulation it's stifling us and costing us a bomb and (c) the effect of the latest employment regulations is like putting another nail in the coffin of flexible labour markets. Despite Hague's so called euroscepticism the Foreign Office is still in thrall to the EU. This is ridiculous. We need civil servants who are not only trenchantly for Britain as a sovereign state but whose sole interest is in fighting for Britain's interests. All we seem to get from Cameron, Osborne and Hague (I exclude Clegg - we know he is an EU useful idiot) is a wishy washy kind of approach. They give me the strong impression that they do not want to rock the boat for fear of upsetting the the Germans and the French. To hell with the Germans and the French. They will fight their own battles without any care in the world for us and we must fight our corner too. Cameron should have been rude to that low flying frog Sarkozy for snubbing him. Who does Sarkozy think he is? As for Angela Merkel what precisely do we owe her? Nothing. Cameron should have slapped her down for her impertinence in threatening us over the treat changes she wants. It is so disappointing to find Cameron, Osborne and Hague as pusillanimous as Blair. Do they have no real beliefs, no real passion for doing the right thing for Britain?