In his first "Constituency Matters" posting for the Ealing Gazette MP Virendra Sharma compares the recent general election results to a “volcanic explosion in British politics” with the fallout being the “ash cloud”. I congratulate him on his use of similes but that's about all the praise he can be given for his article. Unfortunately, Sharma has chosen "doom and gloom" to be the theme of his entire address.

Sharma goes on to make a baseless claim that there is a "real chance of a double dip recession". He conveniently re-writes history by suggesting this is a “Tory recession” whilst the rest of us all know our current recession is effectively a parting gift from his very own former Labour administration. I wonder how much of this is his own analysis and how much is actually borrowed from the naysayers from within his party.

Anyway, to sift through Virendra’s dark clouds and offer up some light to brighten his day, I thought I’d list some truly positive facts about the new coalition and their early achievements:

Education

We are now going to have more academy schools with one thousand schools having already responded positively to Michael Gove's invitation to become academies. Gove's initiative may see the number of independently-managed schools quadruple.

Debt reduction

Debt reduction has begun (remember the Labour Party has left this country with £167Billion of deficit). Only one tenth of what needs to be done (according to the IFS) has been done but George Osborne's £6bn of spending cuts is a vital first down payment. Also, the establishment of the Office of Budget Responsibility will give us confidence that the new Chancellor cannot and will not be able to manipulate budget figures in the way that Gordon Brown did.

Sharma should remind himself that any cuts that are being introduced by the new government are only necessary because of the ill-fated economic policies of the former Labour government.

Obviously, he would not like to mention that just before the elections, they wasted so much money left, right and centre that their Chief Secretary, Mr. Byrne, was honest enough to say in his hand over note “Dear Chief Secretary, I’m afraid there is no money. Kind regards — and good luck! Liam.”

Increased transparency

Government spending will be exposed to more scrutiny. All government expenditure is being put online. Andrew Mitchell announced an Aid Transparency Guarantee to give taxpayers confidence that their money is genuinely going to the world's neediest people. Top Whitehall pay has been published. Transparency is one of Cameronism's seven biggest ideas.

Cutting red tape

The biggest example of this so far is the end of Home Information Packs (HIPs), delivered by Eric Pickles and Grant Shapps. Iain Murray has praised the Coalition's overall programme for deregulation.

Management of the war effort

The National Security Council with new Foreign Secretary William Hague at the helm have already convened to bring clarity to Afghanistan campaign.

Removal of Labour’s wasteful initiatives

The ID cards programme has been abolished with other, more relevant and less expensive civil libertarian ideas set out by Nick Clegg.

Also, fewer quangoes. Michael Gove has already scrapped 3 education quangoes and yesterday Vince Cable said that in addition to the 13 quangoes he has already scrapped he has plans to end or merge another 20. "It looks as though the march of the quangoes may finally have been halted," concluded The Telegraph.

More freedom for local government

(The new Labour council should be thanking us for this one.) Ring-fencing of funds has been abandoned for much of central government's grant to local government as a first big step towards greater localism. We've also seen the end of expensive Comprehensive Area Assessments and the axing of Regional Spatial Strategies.

Finally (for now), there has been a return of Parliamentary decorum with this new government as the latest PMQs have shown.

Mr Virendra Sharma continues to prove how woefully inadequate he is as an MP by spewing his negative rhetoric (just as he did during the general election). His brand of politics is the "politics of fear" and should be taken seriously at one's own peril.

On my part, I will continue to provide an alternative view to that of Mr. Sharma because I owe it to 12,733, almost 30% of the electorates, a record for the Conservatives, who voted for me.

Gurcharan Singh