Planning for the future.

Subject: Planning for the future.

Is it a women thing. Bodicia, Margaret Thatcher and Teresa May were/are tough, no nonsense people who have the belief that what they say is right and are deaf to any other points of view.
Mrs May has just provided the population as a whole,  with the chilling prospect that "austerity" is still and will remain the only game in town. The public sector has had seven years of under cost of living increases such that our nurses are turning to food banks to make ends meet. The schools are facing a shortfall of 4 billion pounds of government sending which will have profound effects on the way our schools will be run and the education our kids can expect.
She batted away these apoplectic visions with benign references to how well the economy performs. Of course in some ways this is true if we don't rethink our obsession with reducing taxes and placing the benefits of the economy  towards the better off.
There has been plenty of instances where the wealthy have been rewarded on the assumption that in a trickle down concept of the economy the rewards offered higher up will benefit those lower down.
Mrs May seems to think that the cost of the food banks and unfulfilled educational prospects is a price worth paying since I suppose being a vicars daughter she presumes our real rewards are in heaven.
Of course we are famous for muddling through, disinclined to devote money towards future projects in the "national interest" rather we prefer the short term political interest.

 The French alternatively have rooted their policy making in the "grand project". 

"Planification". Urban development and energy policy spring to mind with 95% of the electricity generation being state owned and designed in house and  run on nuclear power.
Their advanced military complex and super fast railways crisscrossing the nation with their home grown technology spilling over into Airbus, keeps the skill base within the country whilst we flaunt our skills with contempt, favouring rather a 'quick return' in the derivative market.
Our failure to invest, train or plan beyond the next election must make our Victorian forefathers turn in their graves.