In the Sunday Times, Robert Colvile argues that our Build Back Better campaign ‘conceals a back door to socialist revolution’. His piece kicks up as much dust as possible in an attempt to hide the fact that most people don’t want to go back to the old ‘normal’ of the pre-COVID era, the ‘normal’ that got us into this mess.
So instead of tackling the ball Colvile goes for the player. The issue, as he valiantly unpicks how the Build Back Better campaign happened (next time just call Robert) is who did it, not why. The whole piece tries to reveal a ‘stitch up job’ of covert left-wing ops trying to sneakily bring down capitalism. Far from it.
As one of the architects of the campaign let me quickly tell you how it happened before going on to the substance of what really matters and what Robert is trying to avoid.
