Instead of producing migrant deportation porn to show how out of ideas it is, the Labour government could take a leaf out of Trump’s “stick it to the elites” book but actually do something useful with it - like nationalising the water industry, starting with Thames Water. The finance-rentier oligarchy and tbeir economist-apologists would vomit more shit than a Thames Water sewage farm about how contrary this is to the rules and norms of the “free market”. But rather than a destructive, Trumpian bearding of elites, renationalising water actually is a good idea and a net win for the country that is opposed with specious ideological justification by a group of greedy rentiers.

Miles Metcalfe @mmetcalfe