Since the election on Thursday Britons have had time of celebration. The threat of a Corbyn Government and Britain’s descent into Venezuelan style socialism and penury has been removed for the near future. We who want to see Britain free of the European Union and a return of the other freedoms, such as freedom of speech, which the Left has stolen from us, have been bathing in the salty tears of Leftists and laughing at the error of those who thought that screaming ‘racist’ and ‘Islamophobe’ at the electorate was an effective way of winning elections.

But now the real work for Boris Johnson’s government begins. Mr Johnson has done well to be humble at the scale of his victory and the fact that many Northern constituencies loaned the Tories their votes in order to beat a Labour Party that had lost interest in the working class and the problems that the working class face. However to stop these voters going back to Labour, Mr Johnson needs to honour and respect the trust that has been placed on him by the voters.

The primary task of the new government is to get Britain out of the EU. I believe that it is vital that Britain distances itself from the EU before the EU implodes due to the worsening economic, political and social problems that the bloc has piled up for itself. We want to be behind solid walls when the EU implodes, because the results will be pretty nasty and will, if Britain cleaves too closely to the EU post Brexit, damage the UK.

However, apart from the issue of the European Union, there are other matters that need the government to attend to. Some of these have been flagged up as proposals that may be in the Queen’s Speech on Thursday such as closing down the Department for International Development, the repeal of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act and the splitting off of border control from the Home Office. These proposals are in my view all good things.

The Dept for International Development has been a money pit with very little to show for the billions it spends. It is also a department that seems to have been captured by the Left and overly influenced by left leaning NGO’s. Those of us who want to see some form of properly targeted foreign aid would prefer this spending to not only go on disaster relief but also on stuff that may be mutually beneficial to both the receiving nation and to the UK. This is why I believe that other department such as Trade, the FCO and the MOD might spend this money more wisely than DFID did.

The Fixed Term Parliaments Act has also been an utter disaster. A piece of legislation cobbled together by David Cameron and Nick Clegg in order to shore up the Coalition government was weaponised by the hard core Remainers in Parliament in order to deny the electorate a chance to voice their views via the ballot box on the House of Commons. The previous arrangement where a Prime Minister in consultation with the Monarch had the power to dissolve Parliament and hold an election worked well for decades and this legislation should have been dropped as soon as Theresa May became PM.

The Home Office has long been unfit for purpose in a lot of areas. It’s been that way since the Blunkett years and has only got worse since then. Migration and border control has for many of us been the biggest failure and making these areas of governance a separate department means that there will be a high level minister who will be accountable for migration.

But there are other areas where the new government needs to intervene and to do so not for any short term gain for either the Tory Party itself or individual ministers. Education, free speech, the future of public service broadcasting and security all need to be looked at closely by ministers.

With education Boris Johnson should learn from the failures of the past and especially the failures of successive education secretaries and get to grips with both the educational establishment and the teachers unions. It was in my opinion one of Margaret Thatcher’s biggest failures that she was not able inject more vigor and political balance into the world of education. The educational establishment, that leans very strongly towards progressive ideas and politics, managed to run rings around successive Tory and Labour education ministers and this needs to stop. I’m a parent and I want my child to be educated properly and not indoctrinated into hating his own country or his history or told anti-science lies such as there are a multitude of different genders. Both Tory and Labour governments have failed to stop the Left turning our education system into a ‘commissar factory’ and we’ve seen the effect of this with the creation of a ‘snowflake’ generation of the permanently ‘offended’.

Free speech is another area that needs urgent attention by the new government. ‘Offending’ someone should no longer be a crime. I get offended every day by something or other but I do not demand that it is banned nor to I call the police about it. The only criminal limits to free speech should be the incitement of a direct, credible and immediate threat of violence. Those acts of Parliament that are currently being misused in order to stifle criticism of certain religious ideologies such as the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 also need to go as should any distinctions around ‘hate crime’. It matters to me not one one jot if I get punched in the face by a drunk if he hits me because he’s an aggressive drunk or if he calls me a filthy Yid during the assault, I’ve still been punched in the face, which is the important thing here. A society that can speak freely is a society that is dynamic, inventive and confident. ‘Hate speech’ laws are the work of governments who do not have confidence in their people and instead believe that the ordinary man in the street is little more than scum who need coercing to speak only the views of the ruling party.

I think that we are going to see much more robust statements on security from the new government than from previous ones. Boris Johnson was at least saying what many of us think about Islamic terrorism and terrorist prisoners and we should wait and see if his statement after the London Bridge II attack have any substance or not. I’d like to see the new government be more honest than previous ones about where the major source of terrorism is coming from.

As for the BBC, we may be seeing a more combative attitude towards it not seen since the days of Margaret Thatcher. I used to respect the BBC but not anymore. It is now a partisan broadcaster that is failing to provide balance in its news coverage. Even worse than that, a dreary brand of approved BBC style left-wingery has taken hold of quiz shows, comedy, light entertainment and drama. Too many of these programme areas have a leftist slant to them whether that be popular drama like Eastenders or topical quiz shows like Have I Got News For You. I used to consume a lot of BBC output back in the day but now my consumption of the BBC is limited to University Challenge and Mastermind. I choose not to buy the Guardian as it is not to my taste, however I have no choice but to fund the BBC and its left wingery through the TV licence. If any form of licence is to be retained as a funding method for the BBC, then the cost for that should be the BBC showing much greater respect for viewpoint and opinion diversity than they do at present. There is much that is good that could be saved from the wreckage of the current BBC or from the BBC as it is currently constituted and which should not be consigned to the scrap heap. I think that we should have a broadcast cultural repository where the learning, art and science that has made both Britain and the world great is available for all. But, to get to that situation, both the BBC and the government need to realise that the bubble that the BBC has retreated into is leading it further and further away from the people and the country that the BBC is supposed to serve.

This government has an awful lot to do besides Brexit. We can only hope that they do what is necessary to undo the damage that Labour and also the Tory Party has done in the past. A lot will depend on the new intake to the House of Commons. Will these Tories be dry and independently minded or will they, like so many of those who came into the Commons with Cameron, be in hock to liberal left ideologies. I hope it is the former as these liberal left ideologies are the ones that have failed our businesses, our schools, our culture, our society and our people.