CAC - // They make all kinds of pronouncements costing billions because they know they will never actually be in power to impose those plans or how to fund them. //
I remember hearing Corbyn's plans for Labour in government, and thought then that this is a man who is simply fantasising on the basis that he knows beyond any doubt that he will never be called on to realise these fantasies.
It was almost wilful how Corbyn talked about 'broadband for all for £200 million'.
In my last years at BT, I was in on the ground floor of broadband as it was conceived and implemented, and even at my my level, the overwhelming fact that overrode anything else, was the sheer enormity of the cost of providing it.
I remember the then chair of BT popping up and advising Mr Corbyn to double his figure as a baseline, and then be ready for it to take off into the strasophere with the speed of a Saturn Five rocket.
I believe then and now that Jeremy Corbym and his followers literally live in a dream world, completely insultated from reality, they believe entirely in politifcal concepts that bear less than no relation to the real world, and that is actually where actual and potential Labour voters live.
Starmer's problem is, those thinkers maintain power in his party, and until he can get rid of them his chances of election are below zero.
That is going to take generations, and it won't happen in my ifetime, or indeed in his.