If, as expected, the General Election is called in May, I won’t be entitled to vote. But even I can see that, if they don’t improve dramatically, the Tories are on their way to a monumental gubbing. As irritating and anti-democratic as their policies might be, New/Old/WeLoveBlair Labour are at least talking about health, education, security, you know, stuff that people generally care about. So what does Michael Howard come up with?
Cutting the numbers of asylum seekers (even more illegal than Bliar’s war, and likely to exacerbate our shortage of skilled workers), and… inheritance tax. Now, families aside, the people who are hit by inheritance tax are, well, dead, and therefore unlikely to vote Tory to thank Howard for this tax cut. To achieve this, he will cut such non-essential quangos as the DVLA (yes, that DVLA) and the National Blood Register. Now, I despise quangos as much as anyone else, but I think this takes it just a tad to far!