Of course, it’s true that it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good and indeed Covid-19 is therefore an ill wind.
But not all the consequences of this virus have been for the worse.
Driven by Cummings, the Tories were set to strip the state down to a bare minimum. Private enterprise was to be deregulated and what state assets still existed after 10 years of austerity were to be steered into the pockets of Tory sympathising directors and so-called entrepreneurs.
That unelected Rasputin of politics, Dominic Cummings, having seen off the EU was set to create a state that generously rewarded ‘enterprise’ (i.e. the rich) and savaged ‘dossers and work-shies’ (the poor).
But now that can’t happen. The Tory government has had to invest in the state (i.e. ordinary people) up to its neck. It would not dare to do any other for fear of appearing heartless. Projects like HS2 and anything else that requires trillions of pounds will have to be put in cold storage. The NHS is paramount and will be a spending priority for months if not years to come.
Corbyn and Labour were rightly chastised at the last election for a preposterous public spending programme that the country couldn’t afford; yet because of Coronavirus the Tories have had to spend even more on the public sector.
Their entire manifesto programme is wrecked because their spending choices will be severely limited for all of the next five years. There is a God.
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