Trains! …And a Bunch of Other Stuff That Doesn't Work
Telegraph – Let’s drag our services into the 21st century. By John Redwood
We do not lack cars to put on the roads, planes to fly in the air, bottled water to buy from our supermarkets.
We do not lack computers, televisions, trainers, foodstuffs, gin, or legal advice. All these goods and services are supplied by a competitive market.
It’s when government involvement becomes too intrusive that things fall apart.
Heh.
It’s a bit list-like, so I won’t quote any more than that, but it’s really strange, reading this sort of thing about Britain. How the government’s in charge of all these niggling little things right across the whole of England. We’ve got states, Canada’s got provinces, England’s got counties but apparently they don’t actually count for anything.
Update: Oh that’s who he is. I looked but the byline nor the bottom of the article didn’t say anything.
Telegraph Blogs – Your Business – Red Tape, by Richard Tyler
Business has finally been given a clear distinction between what life is like under Labour and what it could be like under the Conservatives. John Redwood, the former cabinet minister, is to propose this week that a Tory administration would prioritise a £14bn cut in the cost of regulations imposed on businesses and the voluntary sector.
August 14th, 2007 at 12:57 am
I like to recall a Steven Wright joke to illustrate what eventually happens to services provided by government through taxation, after all the internal “friction” takes its course and the whole thing (whatever it is) ends up being run for the benefit of its own (government) employees. (The theoretical reason is the absence of the driving force of the profit motive of shareholders).
“I went to the store to buy some batteries. Only they weren’t included. So I had to buy them again” [from the private sector]