In a surprise U-turn from the hard right, lading members of the party have backtracked on previous spending levels and have left a sour taste for their party colleagues.
The hard right, known for advocating fiscal austerity and promises of spending cuts, have seemingly made a swift shift, leaving some of the most technically knowledgeable behind.
The budget blueprint drafted by the government just weeks ago, proposed cutting previous spending levels and balancing the budget by 2021. However, the momentum of this policy has been halted as the hard right’s policies of reducing wages and cutting funding for public services have gained severe criticism from their own party.
The move has been portrayed by critics as a betrayal of the values that the party purports to stand for, and a regression to pre-election rhetoric.
From the outside, the stance seems to have abhorred the more hard-line supporters of the party, who expect the party to stick to its initial views, but it appears that the agency of elected officials on the hard right is ambitious in making steep cuts and solving the debt problem.
In a statement released by the party, the hard right have argued that they must ‘protect the interests of the taxpayers’ by ‘reducing the burden of public debt and ensuring that spending levels remain sustainable’.
Controversially, however, the party have refused to explain why there has been such a dramatic policy U-turn, and there are now persistent rumours amongst the members that the hard right are intending on raising taxes in order to make up for the cuts to public services.
This could not come at a worse time for the party, with public opinion already brimming with discontentment following the Brexit vote in the summer of last year.
Only time will tell if the hard right can regain the faith of their party colleagues and the public alike, after such a dramatic change of policy.
In a surprise U-turn from the hard right, lading members of the party have backtracked on previous spending levels and have left a sour taste for their party colleagues.
The hard right, known for advocating fiscal austerity and promises of spending cuts, have seemingly made a swift shift, leaving some of the most technically knowledgeable behind.
The budget blueprint drafted by the government just weeks ago, proposed cutting previous spending levels and balancing the budget by 2021. However, the momentum of this policy has been halted as the hard right’s policies of reducing wages and cutting funding for public services have gained severe criticism from their own party.
The move has been portrayed by critics as a betrayal of the values that the party purports to stand for, and a regression to pre-election rhetoric.
From the outside, the stance seems to have abhorred the more hard-line supporters of the party, who expect the party to stick to its initial views, but it appears that the agency of elected officials on the hard right is ambitious in making steep cuts and solving the debt problem.
In a statement released by the party, the hard right have argued that they must ‘protect the interests of the taxpayers’ by ‘reducing the burden of public debt and ensuring that spending levels remain sustainable’.
Controversially, however, the party have refused to explain why there has been such a dramatic policy U-turn, and there are now persistent rumours amongst the members that the hard right are intending on raising taxes in order to make up for the cuts to public services.
This could not come at a worse time for the party, with public opinion already brimming with discontentment following the Brexit vote in the summer of last year.
Only time will tell if the hard right can regain the faith of their party colleagues and the public alike, after such a dramatic change of policy.
