Cameron Gives In

I read in the Daily Telegraph that the new Tory leader, David Cameron, is giving in to welfare-state ideas by claiming that Thatcherite policies has ”little or no relevance in modern Britain” and that he would not be bound in any way by her thinking. Instead, his ambition is to ”place the interests of the poor above those of the rich”. To me this is sad news. If anything, the last decade has proven that the ideology of Margaret Thatcher is needed and relevant to our time. Ditching business-friendly reform politics to better fit the easygoing leftist ideas of mainstream voters is wrong. The policies that were right in the era of Mrs Thatcher are right now—what is good for business is good for humankind; what is good for the rich is good for the poor. The last thing Britain or any other progressive country need is more of politics aiming at polarise the interest of rich and poor.