Right turn

A symposium on the need to end the 'progressive' consensus in British thinking and policy.
We must beware of trying to build a society in which
nobody counts for anything except a politician or an
official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and
thrift no privileges.
I was brought up to believe that taxation was a bad
thing but the consuming power of the people was a
good thing . . . that trade should be regulated mainly
by laws of supply and demand and that, apart from
basic necessaries in great emergencies, the price
mechanism should adjust and correct undue spending
at home . . .
I was also taught it was one of the first duties of
Government to promote that confidence on which
credit and thrift, and especially foreign credit, can alone
extend and grow. I was taught to believe that those
processes working freely within the limits of well-known
laws for correcting monopoly, exploitation and other
measures in restraint of trade . . . that those principles
would produce a lively and continuous improvement in
prosperity. I still hold to those general principles.