Tory carte blanche

[alphadog]

Now that the Tories have absolute power, aside from the obvious:

• EU referendum
• Reduce some benefits a bit
• 70% discounts to tenants who wish to buy their privately owned houses (let's see how that plays out)
• Promise to build garden cities that will never be built
• Privatise the NHS a bit

... What will be their surprise policies? Maybe they will:

• Carve off some green belt edges for housing
• Abolish IR35
• Sponsor dimprawn's Australian visa application
• Reform electoral boundaries
• Reform council tax
• Abolish the House of Lords

[MicrosoftBob]

Will it be an EU sanctioned EU referendum like Ireland, where they will redo the referendum until they get the right EU approved answer

[BrilloPad]

Biggest question for me is how they will go about reducing the deficit.

[jamesbrown]

Now that the Tories have absolute power, aside from the obvious:

• EU referendum
• Reduce some benefits a bit
• 70% discounts to tenants who wish to buy their privately owned houses (let's see how that plays out)
• Promise to build garden cities that will never be built
• Privatise the NHS a bit

... What will be their surprise policies? Maybe they will:

• Carve off some green belt edges for housing
• Abolish IR35
• Sponsor dimprawn's Australian visa application
• Reform electoral boundaries
• Reform council tax
• Abolish the House of Lords

IR35 isn't going anywhere, but it may become redundant for many (agency work through an FLC structure). They aren't going to abolish the HoL, but they will want a few more Tory peers. Reforming electoral boundaries isn't a "surprise" policy, that is definitely going to happen. Scotland will be interesting in terms of how far they go beyond the Smith Commission.

[expat]

Just obeying the law is not enough

Britain is too “passively tolerant” and should not leave people to live their lives as they please as long as they obey the law, David Cameron has said.

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“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone',” he said.

[VectraMan]

Will it be an EU sanctioned EU referendum like Ireland, where they will redo the referendum until they get the right UKIP approved answer

FTFY.

It'll be like the Scotland referendum. It'll cost a lot of money; create a lot of uncertainty; there'll be endless debates, and nothing will change. And it'll do nothing to stop the Kippers from moaning.

[VectraMan]

Just obeying the law is not enough

Oh great. We've elected New Labour.

[expat]

Oh great. We've elected New Labour.

Strangely enough, although in my heart I would think that Labour of any stripe just couldn't resist interfering in people's lives, and the Tories would rather just get out of the way; actually it often seems to be the other way round.

[EternalOptimist]

The deficit and reform of the BBC

[OwlHoot]

Oh great. We've elected New Labour.

Sorry to have to say it, as it may sound slightly sexist, but we've elected a load of bossy busibody women