The similarities between the Tory mayoral candidate’s approach to redeveloping council estates and those of Tony Blair’s former policy chief are very striking
What did Zac Goldsmith’s Tory conference speech add to our knowledge approximately his remedies for Londons housing problems? “The answer is not easy but it is simple,” he said. This rang a bell. Last month, Labour peer Andrew Adonis, or wrote a large article for Prospect magazine called “How to fix the housing crisis.” It began:
In my experience of public policy and government,large challenges do not always require complex solutions. Often the fundamental reforms are simple. I am also wary of the gibe: “If it were simple, it would maintain been done already.” This confuses “simple with “easy”. If simple reforms are controversial and difficult to implement—because they radically challenge the status quo—then politicians tend to default into waffle, or half measures or complex tweaks of the status quo,achieving small.
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Source: theguardian.com