Prioities for the new Government

OK, so I had a bet on 301 to 325 seats at 3-1 but it was more wishful thinking than a serious hope of a financial return, as my last post indicated.  Although I lost my money, I was delighted to have been proved hopelessly pessimistic!

The newspapers thereafter have been full of advice on how our "winning" leader should proceed.  Surely nothing need be done on the economy?  Unless we have been mislead, our "long-term economic plan" will see that right.  This should leave plenty of capacity to deal with issues conveniently neglected in the election auction of promises.  Here is my top five:

•  Implement the Boundaries Commission recommendations. The first priority for survival in a hostile terrain is protection

•  Revise foreign policy drivers and funding constraints for Strategic Defence & Security Review 2015.  More protection

•  Revise the Energy Policy to ensure practicability and affordability rather than looking good in Paris

•  Deal decisively with Scotland.  Rather like feeding the crocodile, piecemeal concessions will only encourage greater demands from Nationalists

•  Reinvigorate Gove's education reforms.  Indeed, since the promotion of skills is the fundamental upon which our commercial survival in the global race depends, we must tackle this particular blob with determination. In my opinion, the ever-helpful and multi-faceted Nicky Morgan is quite the wrong person to do this.