It’s time to abandon cruel and costly policies that merely satisfy a severe, moralistic approach to drugs and their users
‘You only need two sentences to understand British politics,” Lord Maurice Saatchi told a recent News Agents podcast. “Conservatives are efficient but cruel. Labour is caring but incompetent.” Now, though, as the election approaches: “You have the Conservatives as inefficient but cruel, and that’s going to be a complete disaster.”
Lots of analysis echoes Saatchi’s observation – that these surprising bedfellows, cruelty and inefficiency, have come together only lately, in the dying days of the Conservative party, explaining the magnitude of its coming fall. The Rwanda policy is often cited here. Or the idea of forcing young people to spend weekends doing community service, at great public expense.
