Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
The right always talks about reducing state power, but always increases it. State power and state spending grow every year regardless of who is in charge.
Not always, but all too often. The Reagan administration truly did scale back federal power in a number of categories (though not of course spending). Sadly, both of the Bush administrations exemplified your point qiute a lot -- and 43 was way worse than 41. In fact, to find a series of Right Wing administrations that didn't you pretty well have to go back to Harding/Coolidge (and they had the advantage of the boom of the 1920s and resurgent US isolationism/downsize the military to work with).

Is the same pattern true in the UK as well?