Labour have promoted a culture of dependency and conformity  

Britain has become one of the most centralised countries in the developed world with a top down, target driven, box ticking and surveillance obsessed government that has consistently placed its faith in laws rather than people. The Queen’s Speech which we have now finished debating in the House of Lords confirms that this veracious appetite to legislate, meddle and regulate shows no sign of abating: The speech states ‘The government are going to work to build trust in democratic institutions’ and yet there are now 1,152 quangos in the UK responsible to unelected boards rather than democratically accountable institutions’. Local government represents 25% of government expenditure but 81% of central targets. The responsibility to report is not the same as the responsibility to act, which has been taken away. We have now overtaken India as the country with the longest...