75
/100
Oracle verdict
HEAVY COPE
Burnham offers a polished Manchesterism pitch: Thatcher-era deindustrialisation, deregulation and privatisation are cast as the root problem, while public control, affordability, collaboration and a “new economy” are offered as the national cure. AI’s structural destruction of aggregate labour demand and rentier capture never enters the frame; with Burnham now Prime Minister, this is regional regeneration cope promoted to the national operating system.