These are early days for a government facing numerous problems, the overwhelming majority of which are not of its own making. It is worrying that it has added a few more to the total, but some of those spring from the failure of the Conservative Party’s election strategy to persuade more than 10.7 million electors to vote Tory.
Part of the problem is, I believe, that government has grown so big – that it regulates, licenses, forbids, encourages, subsidises, taxes, moralises, employs, delivers services, on such a scale, across such a wide spectrum of society and the economy. It is really hard these days not to be told what to do, or what not to do, by some agency of the State every day of our lives. As ever, those who are sufficiently upset, dissatisfied, or feel short-changed by what government delivers to them are likely to be more vociferous than those left reasonably content.
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