Promises, Promises

The Times leader today, pompously concerned that politicians will play to the populist gallery in the forthcoming election, recommends us that, “rather than fantasy economics, what Britain needs is a realistic debate about its priorities and how to fund them.”  Quite so but in a parliamentary climate in which manifesto promises, on all sides, are held in such light regard that many are repudiated before their ink is dry, those of us still awaiting delivery of the result of the EU referendum might wonder what on earth would be the point of any debate, realistic or not?