Exactly what I was hoping to hear
"One: we will repeal all of the intrusive and unnecessary laws that inhibit your freedom.
Two: we will reform our politics so it is open, transparent, decent.
Three: we will radically redistribute power away from the centre, into your communities, your homes, your hands.
Big, sweeping change.
Not incremental, not bit by bit.
Our democracy has suffered at the hands of encroaching centralisation and secrecy for decades.
Take citizens' rights: eroded by the quiet proliferation of laws that increase surveillance, quash dissent, limit freedom."
Nick Clegg, Deputy PM, today.
I was hoping Obama would come up with something similar when he got elected but the pathetic behavior of the Democrats when they got control of the House and Senate made that unlikely.
There are going to be things I absolutely despise about the Conservatives, dress it in whatever terms you like - it boils down to conformity. However, so long as we have freedom then anything else can be fixed and we are finally regaining the ground that has been lost since 2001. I'll take the dangers of freedom over the illusion of security any day.