Here's a question .
Has a conservative government ever done anything that you think is good or is it quite literally a situation where no matter what you just despise them .
I struggle with the idea that you shouldn't vote for a particular party no matter what .
I did vote Labour again , but if the tories did absolutely nothing good at all , then surely everybody would want them out .
As it stands they are one of the most successful political parties in the democratic world in terms of elections won .
It doesn't add up .
I'd appreciate your thoughts on it
Not everything can be bad , it's impossible
Fundamentally their ideology is antithetical to government action so it’s reasonable that there’s not much government action to credit them with.
That said. GDS (government digital service) was pushed hard by Osbourne and Cameron and is excellent, really dragged government web services into the 21st century.
The education reforms were crack handed and did more harm than good but the problem they were supposed to address (coursework fraud basically) was real, similarly with some other cultural issues, except there it’s always a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The freedom of speech in Uni thing was good, but at the same time they’re banning academics from talking about topics they don’t like.
Similarly right to buy is good in theory, but then you need to fund social housing more and they didn’t. Some planning changes have been good, but others awful.
Wind power push was good, but came at the expense of more sensible stuff like solar and insulation and on shore wind.
Vaccine delivery has obviously been smashed out the park, but why the dithering at the start?
Overall they want to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a small elite and I fundamentally disagree that’s a good thing. For either democracy or the economy.
