Britain: Changing of the Guards.

David Cameron is now former Prime Minister. The decision of the Conservative Party to unite behind the Home Secretary (Theresa May) hastened his departure. So, he left #10 Downing Street far in advance of the October resignation he planned.

Theresa May is generating a good deal of excitement in the country. Apart from the fact that she is a woman, she had served for 6 years as Home Secretary, which is a record. So, in her first speech given in front of #10 she sounded a lot more like a Home Secretary than a Prime Minister. She wants Britain to work better for everyone. She wants to lessen economic injustice and presented a laundry list of these that would make Sen Fauxcahontas of Mass proud:

1. that Britain's poor live 8 years less than those better off;
2. that students in public universities are less successful than students in private institutions;
3. that blacks are treated harsher than whites by the justice system;
4. that women earn less than men;
5. that working men are anxious about their jobs and earnings.

There wasn't time to present details, but one can presume that she will pursue a course of government meddling. We, of course, do remember that Britain's Conservative Party is not really Conservative in our terms, that it is a paler copy of the Labor Party, which used to be explicitly Socialist.

Let's take her first point. The poor die sooner because they are served by the National Health Service.. The NHS is limited by its budget. Private medical care is better but it costs more. Those better off can afford it, the average Briton can't. Who voted for NHS? The people did. And she won't be able to change it for the better. Theresa May is already setting up the Barak Hussein method of leadership: campaign against the results of your policies. Perhaps there is no way back from Social Democracy. Maybe, once a system like that takes hold, it remains until the currency is totally ruined and people realize that they have to work for what they get. Because there is no free lunch. Somebody has to pay for it.