As Kenan Malik correctly concludes: after decades of out-sourcing & privatisation the UK has been left with,
'a state that is both overwhelmed and overbearing. Governments appear too stretched & incompetent to formulate coherent strategies to address the big problems, whether economic growth or social care. Instead, they have become fixated by petty & often illusory problems... all bluster but no competence'!
But for the Right that's deemed a success!
#politics
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/incompetent-and-doomed-privatisation-has-made-a-dads-army-of-the-state