tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post4466157869902488577..comments2023-08-16T12:07:22.995+00:00Comments on The Daily (Maybe): Tories: cutting off the economy's noseJim Jeppshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-42834988073562531952009-10-07T15:37:26.401+00:002009-10-07T15:37:26.401+00:00Thanks for picking that Ken intervention up, it is...Thanks for picking that Ken intervention up, it is precisely on the money.<br /><br />The key point about Osborne is that, despite all the compassionate conservatism stuff of recent years, he is a free market Thatcherite who really believes that all we have to do is "get the state off the back" of the private sector in this country, and privately-led economic growth will come roaring back. <br /><br />We really need a debate about this, because I'm not so sure that it will, and even if it does, it will be the wrong type of economic growth that will knacker the environment. <br /><br />So we're looking at two terms of a government with a lose-lose economic development policy. I'm glad Ken's bothered - I wish everyone else could rouse themselves to be so.Strategisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16519305659966338395noreply@blogger.com