"What is to be done? Here is a programme for a change-minded government"
Telegraph: 29th May 2025: Lord Frost offers up a PopCon style of change to Britain's governance
"... Britain’s national characteristic is no longer queueing or complaining about the weather... it’s about trying to “carry on and pretend that none of this is really happening to us”.
Look around you, and it’s maybe a rational view... It ought to be less so for the policy-making classes. But nevertheless, faced with economic and social crisis, the dominant view of Britain’s governing class is “yes, things are bad, but there’s very little to be done and the best thing is to get used to it”. They refuse to contemplate any serious change and prefer to retreat to their comfort zone and blame “populism”...
...We are beyond tinkering. When things are as bad as they are, only radical reform can make any difference...
...Two sets of actions are needed to get back on track. The first is to rebuild our country: its institutions, its government machine, its borders, its history, its culture. This is crucial...The other is to get economic growth going again...
...Rebuilding the country involves first of all reforms to state machinery. Without this, everything else is impossible. We must remove the major remaining international legal constraints on our actions – mainly from the EU, the ECHR, and certain UN conventions. We must reform the civil service so ministers are genuinely in charge and have more political support and control. And we must limit judicial review and at least constrain and probably abolish the Supreme Court, reverting to pre-Blair arrangements...
There can be no argument about these things. The necessary legislation should be in the manifesto and ready to go on Day 1 of a new government, in a State Reform and National Independence Bill. It is a pre-requisite to taking back proper control and making sure the state does its core jobs properly.
Of course we can say all this is too difficult. But in that case we are condemning ourselves to permanent decline. Plenty of other countries have gone down that route. We don’t have to..."