I would much prefer to bring them down as soon as possible. I think they've made the biggest financial mess that any government's ever made in this country for a very long time, and
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. They then start to
nationalise everything, and people just do not like more and more nationalisation, and they're now trying to
control everything by other means. They're
progressively reducing the choice available to ordinary people. Look at the
trouble now we're having with choice of schools. Of course
parents want a say in the kind of education their children have. Look at the William Tyndall School—an example where the parents finally rebelled. Of course they did. These schools are financed by taxpayers' money, but the choice to parents is being reduced.