Why is it the only ideas we import from England are goofy windmills and socialized medicine. Via The Daily Mail:
Contemplate the epic sweep of the Cameron/Clegg administration. They plan to slash the size and function of the British state by cutting our £150 billion annual deficit to zero within the space of just four years.
Equally ambitious, they mean to transform the welfare state by making it worthwhile once again financially for the unemployed to take up jobs - and end the scam which has enabled millions of fit men and women to claim disability benefit.
Meanwhile David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague are brutally reassessing Britain’s role in the world, creating a new network of alliances to replace our broken ‘special relationship’ with the U.S.
British schools are to be taken out of the control of the trades unions and local authorities.
The intellectually bankrupt national curriculum will be canned. (emphasis added)
David Cameron is working to execute sweeping reduction of the size and reach of government and emphasizing the individual rather than the collective.
Taken together, the changes envisaged by David Cameron and Nick Clegg, if put into effect, would make their tenure one of the most revolutionary in all British history.
For they are planning nothing less than the break-up of Gordon Brown’s client state, with individuals being encouraged to stand on their own feet. If successful, this means a dramatic change.
This vaunting ambition shows up the miserable failure of Tony Blair’s government - and far outreaches even Margaret Thatcher’s ambition in her first term of office. (emphasis added)
Conservatives running in 2010 and 2012 need to take note.
Outfreakingstanding! Of course, any success that they have will be ignored, but the fact that they’re even trying is historic.
What they are doing in the UK is excellent and will work. All you will see on TV or in the papers will be the one or two sob stories and not the fact that millions will benefit from the move.