The Tories should be proud capitalists, championing a dynamic entrepreneurial society and a market economy. Government should invest in infrastructure, education, planning and skills - and then get out of the way as fast as possible! Osborne, for all his many faults, succeeded on unemployment. The key to that was a flexible labour market, cutting the unproductive public sector, setting low corporation taxes, welfare restraint and cutting bureaucracy.
Instead, May talks about energy bill capping, a policy copied from Red Ed Miliband! She talks about enshrining the EU's red tape into British law, and even extending it, with endless workers' councils, etc. The disease has spread to Scotland too, with Ruth Davidson u-turning on prescription charges.
So far the sound money free marketeers on the backbenches have reined in Theresa May's worst statist instincts. Philip Hammond was forced to backtrack on his appalling tax increase on contractors. But once she gets elected with a large majority of supine MPs who owe her their allegiance, who will stop the Tories under her watch adopting second rate Kinnock style policies? The Tories should aim to be more than Labour-lite.
I am quite disappointed in May. Michael Gove would have been a far superior Prime Minister. She should not take natural conservatives for granted. It's true that there is no real alternative today, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?