Concrete Plans and Crumbly Pledges

Since the present Government's fear and loathing of non-privatised schools, hospitals and legal systems is emphatically shared and endorsed by Team Starmer, it would no doubt be antisemitic to expect too much of Labour's righteous indignation over a few public buildings falling down. The chair of the public accounts committee wondered why not enough money has been invested despite no real systemic change being necessary; but of course such fripperies as buildings and equipment must always be down-prioritised when seeking the Grail of Growth, especially when that eternal quest must needs be undertaken without taxing the rich, without Government borrowing, and without any substantial reintegration of the mainland's relationship with Europe. On the bright side, given the next Labour administration's likely degree of non-ideological pragmatism there will surely be opportunities for the private sector to step in, and rescue the British taxpayer at no more than a moderate and sensible rate of exorbitance.