The Houseguest Who Rearranged The Kitchen
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.
The Limited Government Conservative believes the state is a houseguest who has stayed too long and started rearranging the kitchen, ideally without permission. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from the Institute of Economic Affairs and the TaxPayers Alliance.
Twenty Tells: Spotting The Limited Government Conservative On A British High Street
- Has explained the cure for any ministry is a smaller ministry.
- Refers to the civil service as the very polite occupation.
- Holds any new department is structurally a small surrender.
- Maintains a fantasy in which DEFRA is replaced by a postcard.
- Refers to regulation the way some men refer to ivy.
- Treats any tax above thirty percent as a sort of cardiovascular event.
- Maintains a binder of Friedrich Hayek essays.
- Refers to local councils as the visible bit of the iceberg.
- Holds any subsidy is a candle for inefficiency.
- Has explained, at a wedding, that the toast should be to the night watchman.
- Refers to public health campaigns as the long lecture.
- Treats a quango as a kind of small, well-paid weed.
- Maintains a fantasy in which the Cabinet Office downsizes itself.
- Refers to the BBC as a state with branding.
- Holds any economy is improved by the next deregulation paragraph.
- Maintains a soft spot for sunset clauses.
- Treats any new agency as a sort of polite intruder.
- Refers to the Treasury as a sort of holiday cottage we visit too rarely.
- Has explained ministers should govern less, but more clearly.
- Believes the perfect government is one that finishes early.
Editor’s Note
If any of this rings a bell, you have either been to a Tory association AGM, a Reform UK rally above a leisure centre, or both. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see NewsThump.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/
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