Dear Prime Minister,
I have been a Conservative voter all my adult life, but after the last few years of this particular and rather odd government, I shall no longer be voting for that party until it regains its traditional Conservative values. I shall explain below.
First off we have waste, lots of it and blaming Labour after this amount of time quite frankly just doesn't cut it any more. We all applauded the speech about the bonfire of the quangos that suck billions out of the economy and yet little has happened. We still have for example the Immigration Advisory Quango(formerly run by jailed share dealing ex MP Keith Best, proof that crime can indeed pay!) that infamously said the immigrants made better passport holders than native Brits and the Potato Marketing Board. Seriously do we need a quango that receives taxpayers money to tell people to buy spuds?
Then we have the dire PCSO's, few of which have ever made any form of arrest and lack proper police powers, being little more than uniformed jobs worth quasi social workers resolving or rather failing to resolve neighbour disputes. Indeed whilst police are being cut, several forces are hiring PCSO's.
Then we have aid abroad, which still has little if any oversight as to where its actually being spent, continual stories in the press of vast amounts wasted and with the last budget an actual increase in the amount poured into the pockets of corrupt potent antes Swiss bank accounts. Actually increasing the amount is a stupid thing to do considering that the national debt of this UK should be cleared in full, before any monies are thrown away in Bongo bongoland(© the late Alan Clarke MP). You see we are, out of money and printing more to waste in dictators Swiss bank accounts is a rather silly thing to be doing.
Again I feel that the people of this land, the folk who elected you want you to look after their needs, not supply the cannibals in the Pacific isles with gold plated cooking pots.
Cuts would help and yet your spending more even than Labour did.
Another phrase used by yourself upon entering No.10 was that of open government, well there has been talk, quite a lot but little in the way of results. Indeed at this moment we have another state snooping bill going through parliament that will allow ever more bodies of prod noses to look into our lives and e-mails. Although not related to that directly we have also seen a rise in the number of people stopped whilst taking photos of late, in part by over zealous G4S security guards at Olympic sites. Maybe a word in the Home Sec's ear would not go amiss, although I shall come back to her later.
Moving on, we come to what is laughingly referred to as quantitative easing, or in English - printing money to put off the evil day when cuts need to be made. If the books don't balance do what industry- whats left of it that is – has to and cut back to make them balance. A simple list of diversity managers, outreach coordinators, immigrant translators and thousands of other state funded Guardian advertised non jobs and a red pen would save a few billion I'm sure. Borrowing money doesn't work when one is running a home and certainly not for a government.
Add to that the money wasted in EU contributions, helping French and Greek farmers fiddle their expenses.
Which brings me onto the that great big Euro shaped elephant in the room – the EU.
We were promised a “cast iron” guarantee of a vote on Europe to settle the matter by yourself, yet where is it? We hear much complaining from the Tory benches about Labours record on Europe and their failure to grant us the people a vote, yet no vote for the people on this subject from your party. Its not difficult, a simple referendum will solve it. Have you the guts to grant it?
Although I will credit your party with one thing and that is your giving people with learning difficulties a job to do, although I must say that the office of Home Sec. Is probably not the best one for her. Indeed I noticed in the last election that the Tory vote went down, had times clearing immigration at Heathrow been speeded up they probably would have been able to get back into UK in time to vote for you.
Maybe a transfer to some “make work” job taking mail between departments would be more suitable for Teresa May? Just a suggestion. I'm sure the many serving police officers being cut would support me on a replacement in her job?
On a related note, quite how long does it take to deport one Abdul the Not Quite Dead Terrorist to Jordan?
Then we have immigration. Another subject where much finger pointing at the benches opposite is done and little else appears to have been. No tackling of EU immigration, out of your hands and all that. Much talk of taking powers back from Brussels and very very little action. A case of inaction would be more accurate. Much little the whole of foreign policy it looks like, but I shall leave that alone.
Another point that has annoyed me and many other ex Conservative voters is the total lack of support for the beer trade. Your government still listens to the quango Alcohol Concern that misuses the charities act to push a prohibitionist agenda and your government keeps the beer duty escalator imposed by Labour, why?
As it stands one third of a pint gos in duties to Chancellor George Osborne, we pay the 2nd highest beer tax in the EU, beer taxes have been hiked by 42% since 2008 and yet a Conservative government is going to tax more.
A real Conservative government would halt these taxes, indeed slash them. At the moment the beer/pub trade supports a million plus jobs, are you trying to get them all claiming JSA and not putting money into the Chancellors hands?
Since 2008 over 4500 pubs have closed their doors and the best this government can claim re pub closures, is that things are still getting worse but slower than under Labour.
Then we have taxes, ever more of them. Possibly the most bizarre being the so called pasty tax, seriously is that the best you can do?
Need I remind you that a tax on business is a punishment on doing well.
That the state should be small and well run.
As it stands you have failed on these points.
To paraphrase an old saying Mr Cameron, so far you have been weighed and found wanting
Yours
An ex Tory voter.
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