A very misty morning, and a slightly mysterious run.
Less mysteriously, Chancellor George Osborne has added his dulcet support to
the government’s move to “simplify planning laws” as a way of helping economic
recovery. This lovely piece of double-speak clearly means “watering down
planning laws to encourage private developments at the expense of the
environment, using the financial crisis as an excuse for driving through more & more extreme measures of capitalism”.
Simultaneously, the Guardian reports that the government is
in discussion with Helios, a German multinational private hospital chain, to
take over some NHS acute services – a “market” (sic) worth £8bn (ref). Presumably this is to "simplify" the health service too.
Possibly the only glimmer of light just now is the BBC carrying an article suggesting that maybe Marx was right about capitalism after all.
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