Take a look at this brilliant example of Modern Conservatism.
I've recently visited Bexhill - Greg Barker territory - and from what I remember, it's a place dependent on local business; the café I bought my coffee from, for instance, was the sort where asking for a receipt was almost criminal, and where, by the counter, they sold locally produced jam.
But God help them. Barker's actually been MP there since 2001 - but luckily for Bexhill they've had a Labour Government for most of that time. Now, though, there's no such safety net. Instead, Greg - whose background is glazed in everything City/Corporate/International - has the sort of recklessly liberal/liberally reckless Tory Government that Margaret Thatcher could only have dreamed of. His words (partly); not mine.
As his "Government gets off the back of business" the fickle Bexhillians [sic] will think their MP and his coalition chums are doing good - their interpretation being: their letting local businesses thrive. But they'd be wrong.
Bexhill is hanging by its fingernails to Seaside England. Without a Government pinning them down, the big guns won't think twice before pushing them over the edge.
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