Government U-Turn’s Show They are Out of Touch

At the 2010 general election I voted Conservative, as the only other realistic choice was Gordon Brown and Labour, I felt my hands were a bit tied.

David Cameron came to power having been dealt a bad hand, added to the fact that he had to make concessions to his Lib Dem coalition partners, in the infancy of his premiership he looked like a man trying to rule with an arm tied behind his back.

However a little more than two years into the job there has been little progress, the economy is what this government came promising to fix, is floundering and estimates of its growth are continually being revised down.  

Government borrowing was higher than expected again, another round of quantitive easing is on the way, added to the pandemonium in the Eurozone, the outlook is bleak at best.       

Many say that the PM and senior ministers within the cabinet and the Tory party are out of touch and can’t understand the problems faced by families on a daily basis, this statement is getting more and more accurate with each passing day.

Recently a number of government u-turns are showing that the PM and the cabinet are losing credibility.

The u-turns on several budget measures like the pasty tax, the u-turn over the fuel duty rise (I agree with this but there shouldn’t have been a rise in the first place) and even Michael Gove is backpedalling on his proposals saying he now will not bring back the lower CSE’s and allow everyone to take the higher O-Level.

When government want to make changes to laws or bring in new measures there are stringent procedures that must be met.

Any new proposal must go through the Commons, the House of Lords and pass the public opinion test. (despite how it must feel we do matter)

However in the last 6 months an alarming amount of new proposals have been met with a  wave of public fury and have forced the government to backtrack.

This can mean one of only two things either the government are rushing through policy and not fully thinking the implications through or they are out of touch and don’t understand the problems facing a large chunk of the electorate.

Whichever one it is, two years into a government it’s a poor position to be in.