Conservative MP Culture Reset
The Conservative Parliamentary Party hasn’t been working as an effective team. Loyalty, integrity, good skills or subject knowledge have counted for less than factional affiliations or personal friendships.
The result has been a consequence-free culture amongst some Conservative MPs, where bad behaviour didn’t harm their prospects, and good didn’t improve them.
This thumbnail explains how to reform the culture of the Conservative Parliamentary Party, using tried & trusted leadership & management techniques which are normal in well-run organisations in the real world outside politics.
Slashing Red Tape
Every £££ of red tape costs has the same effect on our economic growth, productivity and export competitiveness as £££ taken through tax.
We ought to control this ‘regulatory burden’ as carefully as every other type of public spending but, because the money doesn’t have to be raised through taxation, Governments behave as though it is free.
The Chancellor’s Fiscal Rules should include limits on all red tape costs for the first time ever, in the same way as we have always limited taxpayer-funded spending and borrowing. This will create a strong, permanent anti-red tape ratchet, cutting the cost of living & making us more competitive abroad.
A Nation of Capitalists
State Pension costs are becoming unsustainable because of our ageing population, as a smaller-and-smaller working age population has to pay for a larger-and-larger cohort of pensioners.
This thumbnail lays out a better long-term answer. Replacing our current State Pension with an upgraded version of the existing Government ‘NEST’ workplace pension scheme will provide a more comfortable, secure and proudly-independent retirement; reduce pensioner poverty; increase UK savings & investment; & prevent the welfare state from going bust.
Cheaper Energy
UK energy costs are already amongst the highest in the world and current Government policies will make them even more expensive; limit household choices (for example by forcing people to buy particular types of cars or home heating); and cost jobs, investment and growth by creating higher costs for UK firms compared to rivals in other countries.
In this thumbnail, we outline how to get Britain moving again with cheaper, cleaner energy in future.
Taxpayer Net Worth
Successive governments have hidden true taxpayer costs by ignoring big long-term liabilities like state pensions.
Taxpayer Net Worth calls for new fiscal measures that include these missing figures, painting an honest picture of our national finances for the first time.
This will reveal whether Government policies will reduce or increase interest rates so our economy grows faster or slower, & stop Ministers from leaving today’s bills for our children & grandchildren to pay.