It's Not the Economy

The wipe-out of the leftist, socialist government in Hungary's elections teaches a sharp lesson: big state wastrelism unsupported by wealth production will be ended by creditors.  Greece, too,  has had to accept that standards of living must be earned, but Greece tried to dodge the bullet by electing a socialist government, thinking that the reckoning could be bought-off cheaply by adopting particular sociocultural policies and ideology.  Hungary has had more sense. 

The big state, tax-funded, handouts are over.  In which case at least choose a government that will deliver policies that deny access to state largesse for the practitioners of moral hazard exploitation. Greece voted left, hoping that the restraints and pay-backs would be in some measure ameliorated, and that voting left would carry all the other policies and attitudes associated with the clintonian triangulation antics of 'global' governance and anti-democratic administration, rather than national government mandated by the choices  (albeit forced choices) of the electorate.

Hungary has gone to the right and accepted economic stringency but saves  the wishes of its national electorate on all other  policies.  Greece went to the left  in the hope of buying economic mercy by ceding the wishes of its national electorate on all other policies.  This is precisely the choice that must be made in England (because, make no mistake, this is an election about domestic English policies -  for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are in control of their own domestic policies, despite their Labour-granted dominance over English domestic choices), and  we must accept that economic stringency will be imposed, that no amount of wheedling and attempted bargaining in other arenas will ameliorate it one jot or tittle. 

This truth centres Labour's last big lie:  that they can make the reckoning hurt not at all, or at least less, if we continue to accept being swallowed up not into merely Euro-regional governance, but global governance (Brown is the saviour of the world  remember).

So what we should be voting  on is the ending of Labour's 'lives of others' state surveillance, on preventing Labour's ending of the rule of law and of the Common Law,  on rejecting Labour's rigging of our constitutional landscape so that they can favour  the ending of our nation state,  on resistance to Labour's assault on democracy, on rebuilding the Labour-destroyed cultural pillars of our society. 

Brown's economic illiteracy and subsequent scorched-earth policies have dealt a death-blow to avoiding lower living standards, lower growth paths,  debt  -  both individual and public.  We shall reap..... for there is no means of ameliorating what Brown has done.  But while we must accept what we permitted in our inattention and, frankly, disbelief, the rest of the Labour agenda is ours to reject,