78
/100
Oracle verdict
HEAVY COPE
Burnham sells Manchesterism as a portable growth machine: devolve power, align councils, businesses and universities, build five industrial clusters, add housing and perhaps an Olympics, and prosperity will dutifully materialise. AI’s structural destruction of labour demand, rentier capture and the broken wage-consumption circuit never appear; now that this regional blueprint sits with the Prime Minister, the omission has been promoted from local blind spot to national governing theory.