Last night's Newsnight wondered why anyone would propose nationalising British Steel but not Jamie Oliver, apparently because "we hardly make any steel, anyway".
So here we are, in the country that began the Industrial Revolution and which led the world in steel production for generations on end. And all right in the middle of a trade war between steel-producing China and the steel-producing United States.
On this one day, we have the collapse of British Steel, inflation above two per cent, the jaw-dropping scandal of Cadent, and the Alston Report's revelation, to people who had not already been paying attention, that austerity had further impoverished one in every five people in the United Kingdom, that homelessness had increased sevenfold, and much else besides.
Yet most Labour MPs, and almost all other members of the House of Commons, still believe axiomatically that the policies responsible for this catalogue of catastrophe are not just fundamentally sound, but physically impossible to resist or reverse.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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