Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

Dear Simon Heffer,

Your thoroughly justified anger in today’s Telegraph was verging on an educated rant, and consequently made for good reading.

Although you touched on many recent news stories, your point about public services was the most cutting.  The fact that many ministers have never done a ‘real job’ means that they are completely detached from the ‘real world’.  Labour ministers have no concept of serving the taxpayer, they have no concept of morality and decency, and even if they wanted to do a good job I’m not sure they’d be able to.  You are right to highlight the danger of individuals spending their whole working lives in and around the Westminster village without venturing into other fields of work and acquiring expertise – especially in public services – to help inform their decisions at ministerial level.  The apparent detachment with reality when Labour announce their latest policies is always mind-boggling. 

The only solution, as any Conservative will tell you, is to put the power back in the hands of the people.  If you make the money follow the people, rather than people always trying to follow the money thanks to the centralised government we have now, politicians and their cronies will be cut out of the loop and everyone will be the better for it.  Thankfully the Conservative Party have realised this and would make changes along these lines should they be elected, but it will be interesting to see how much power they can relinquish should they be in control of the purse strings themselves.

Yours truly,

A.Tory