And suddenly £100 billion can be found for the "moonshot". Austerity was only ever a political choice, as all economic policy always is. Yet Labour is once again committed to austerity in perpetuity and as a matter of principle. Most of its MPs and the whole of its staff always were, like the Liberal Democrats and the SNP.
Oh, well, this time next week, will the clapping be back? If so, then it will stay forever, which will be something. The scene will be set for having the United Kingdom's National Day on the Fifth of July, the anniversary of the creation of the National Health Service, to be celebrated as fulsomely as the Fourth of July was celebrated in the United States.
Meanwhile, who will be providing the Covid marshals? Will it be Serco, which is one of the British State's favourites among the parastatals that Thatcherism created and Blairism entrenched? Serco is already demonstrating its incompetence in relation to track and trace, so it must be in with a very good chance among all the incompetent megadonors to the Conservative Party and no doubt now also to the Forensic Hairdo. There is already much talk of our all being marshalled by G4S.
I cannot begin to imagine who ought to be providing the Covid marshalls. But give the track and trace contract to the NHS instead. Now, that really would be something worth applauding.
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