La Speculazione Edilizia

One does not, of course, attain a Third World economic paradise simply by asset-stripping the state: there must also be oodles of self-regulation, of the sort which worked so well in restraining parliamentary expenses claims and keeping the minions of Murdoch from doing anything unpleasant. Accordingly, the Government has ordered a review (or, in Standard English, a demolition) of building regulations, on the generally accepted theological assumption that the construction industry has been prevented from taking advantage of the Osborne economic boom largely by such gratuitous inconveniences as wheelchair access and fire safety. It is no doubt indicative that the review has supporters of the calibre of Oliver Letwin, while being greeted with trepidation by at least two large members of the sector it is supposedly intended to benefit; clearly Twizzler Lansley's anti-NHS act, universally renowned for its reasonable aims, sensible scope and smooth passage, was no mere one-off.

Post title expropriated from Italo Calvino, via the building site of Tiso the technomnemologist