unreconstructed Tories

I'm going to join in the clamour of people complaining about Policy Exchange's latest pamphlet which suggests we should give up on towns in the north, build additional housing in London, Oxford and Cambridge and basically manage the decline of towns like Liverpool.

 

For me, it is a real sign of how unreconstructed the Tories are - no sense of what regeneration is for, and an unswerving belief that the market can fix all ills - never mind that throughout the eighties, there was never any private investment in the north and it's only since 1997 that a new public investment paradigm has allowed the creation of markets up north which, "fuck me", nobody knew existed.....

 

SH