Except, of course, he walked that announcement back in small print just as soon as he'd got the necessary headlines.

They aren't going to do anything except maybe give a few highly profitable contracts to some of their mates to do not very much at a vastly inflated price. Conservatives don't do effective government, it's not their game.

It  might help if the Labour Party was waiting in the wings with a systematic critique of the uselessness of the conservative "hands-off-the-market-will-provide" philosophy, but they agree with it themselves.

keep to the Fen Causeway