Danny Kruger MP, co-founder of the New Social Covenant Unit argues that we have a far deeper political problem than the chaos of recent weeks and the solution is a radical new model based on families, communities and the nation
It doesn’t matter who has what job in Government if we don’t face facts about what the matter really is. The matter isn’t good or bad ministers. It’s the slow collapse of the economic and social model that the UK has had for 30 years. Since the end of the Cold War we’ve had cheap money, cheap labour, outsourced manufacturing, New Public Management (fake markets & bureaucracy) in the public services, cultural globalisation, a growing techno-state, and total disregard for the things that give us meaning: families, communities, and the nation.
We are now reaping the whirlwind: chronic public & private debt, chronic family breakdown, chronic despair; & all kinds of malignant reactions including identity politics and the illiberalism of the modern Left, as well as total confusion about what the Tory Party thinks it’s for.
Brexit was a heroic blow for a better model – a restoration of the nation as the foundation of political power and identity. We need to complete this restoration by controlling our borders and making the common law the true ground of our rights and liberties.
We also need to strengthen our communities and families – to let local people take back control of local life, and make it easier not harder to raise children and look after the elderly.
That means changing the economic balance, away from financial services in London and towards manufacturing in the regions; and it means deep reform to the welfare state, to reward community solutions not central bureaucracies.
Of course, ministers have made a mess of things in recent weeks. But we are in a far deeper crisis than a political one – this crisis has its roots in three decades of economic and social change which has affected the whole world, and upturned politics across the West.
The answer lies in a restoration of the fundamentals: families, communities and the nation.
To read more about this vision please visit https://www.newsocialcovenant.co.uk
Danny Kruger is the MP for Devizes. The New Social Covenant Unit (NSCU) was established in 2021 by Miriam Cates MP and Danny Kruger MP. It exists to share an old knew set of ideas and help British politics pivot towards the great opportunities of the new era we are in. They believe that the primary purpose of public policy should be to strengthen families, communities, and the nation: the associations that make individuals happy safe and free. And to promote ideas and policy suggestions from a range of individuals and organisations who, like the NSCU want to create a more local, more connected calmer more sustainable life for all.