Let us take to heart the lesson which is taught us by our own crumbling building, of the mistake of redundant ornament and gimcrack.
How could our citizens have top-class education, health and welfare services supported by such a gimcrack economy?
Rather than do that, you are prepared to set up a vast gimcrack apparatus of oppression and restriction.
That includes the beach in my part of the world, where the one-day trader arrives with all the gimmicky, gimcrack bits and pieces to be sold to the public.
It would be infinitely better to retain, even for five years, the present school-leaving age than to impose on many generations of school children this gimcrack and shoddy pretence.
To make this impractical gimcrack ideology, which will so damage education, work, they are prepared to use untold amounts of taxpayers' money, taken away from other sections of education.
English houses are very gimcrack.
