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"Labour's bigger problem is that they have succumbed to magical thinking in office, believing that necessary tasks such as rebuilding the UK's tattered infrastructure can pay off in a single term or that "reforming" public services can save money upfront and improve services right away.

The way to do reform effectively is to start by asking what you want to accomplish and what systems will best achieve that. If cost control is your aim, then what you need is not reform but to change who pays for something or for what. Governments need to put aside magical thinking and embrace difficult thinking instead. They need to say, for instance, that everyone should have some form of health insurance, which amounts to a transfer of spending obligations from the state to households. Or they should decide that it is not the business of the state to help people other than those with severe physical disabilities.

These are all ditticult choices, and mostly they aren't ones I would make or expect a government to be reelected after making. But saving money and reforming the state are different things."

Onde está Labour substituam por "governo de turno."

Stephen Bush no FT de ontem em "Labour needs to give up magical thinking"