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Yes. Well I used to dispute the "tory" label but as my defence is I voted lib dem, and that now appears to be an even worse crime, maybe I should gratefully accept the lesser offence :-)
I am generally not in favour of big government, lots of legislation, and think the free market is a generally good thing economically, but where we are talking about large amounts of public money being spent, where service provision rather than profit should be the watchword, beit transport, housing, schools, bin collection, health, whatever, then I am in favour of tight legal frameworks binding the providers of those services. Why? Because corruption is endemic in these areas. Councils and civil servants are often naive at best, and sometimes incompetent or corrupt at worst. Even honest developers, drugs companies etc will take maximum advantage of that, and there's enough who aren't honest either.