Charles Moore has a great piece in the Daily Telegraph on how conservatism needs to get back to its Reagan/Thatcher roots as a movement for the masses.
Writes Moore,
"But our present [UK] government, though perfectly sensible about the desperate need to control its own spending and borrowing, never seems to encourage the capacities of the rest of us. Its self-presentation is still obsessed with not seeming nasty. It doesn’t dare identify with those (“the workers, not the shirkers” – Thatcher, 1975) on whose efforts the general prosperity depends..."
"So the priorities and incentives are wrong. They reflect the preoccupations of the elite rather than the aspirations of the multitude."
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