It’s already here but it’s going to become even more so irrespective of who gets elected to government, as I pointed out in an earlier post, A Tory warning for the National Party of 2032.
It seems that more than a few former Tory voters have come to the same conclusion, as the wonderful Samizdata website has it in their article, The UK is trapped inside the Road Runner cartoon:
Even if by some highly improbable miracle Sunak/Hunt & their coterie of Blue Blairites snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, things will continue to get worse, and root causes of that will not change one iota. Why? Because the direction of travel is exactly what Sunak, Hunt, Starmer etc all agree on and want. They all want a technocratic regulatory state & that’s what we have, a technocratic regulatory state.
Under Labour, it will just become much more obvious, the rainbow makeup brighter, the clown shoes they are destined to keep tripping over more polished, particularly given they will have a triple digit majority. We must end the fiction that the fraudulently named Conservative Party circa 2025 is an alternative to Labour as opposed to much the same thing, just more lubricated and with a better wine list.
They had a big majority & could have systematically attacked & undone what Blair did, but they did nothing, because a critical mass of the Tory grandees don’t actually want to. Blair is one of them. What will it take for the last Tory loyalists to see that? Probably nothing & I can easily imagine the photogenic but inane Penny “women-with-cocks” Mordaunt becoming leader when Sunak rides off into the sunset.
The real question is why the Tories are like this? But that’s for another post.
No Minister 
I had to look up “technocrat”.
It seems to me that the future for Britain, and hence New Zealand no doubt, is the exact opposite of technocracy.
Technocracy implies decision making by those with knowledge in a particular field with no consideration of voters.
The Poms seem to be heading to a point where actual knowledge is deemed a disqualifying factor, where how much noise you make on woke-type issues determines whether you get to make the decisions or are confined to history.
Can’t argue about the “regulatory” though, like New Zealand the ability to think and act on that thought is frowned upon.
Interesting point about technocracy and technocrats, but in addition to woke I think the bigger problem is that these people are sold to us as being experts when they’re not.
The US blog Instapundit has long used the phrase, “Credentialed, not educated”, but I would also add that these people are often smart but not wise.
And you don’t have to look further than the fact that it’s just technocrats who decide upon and enforce the regulations.