Simple answers to simple questions

Andrew Potter:

The re-announce is an old game; it’s the political equivalent of Keynes’ multiplier effect, where one ounce of bullshit miraculously turns into a truckload. But with billions of money still unspent from the 2007 budget, with actual problems facing the country, is this really the best use of senior ministers’ time?

With this batch of ministers, it probably is.

And if so, doesn’t that raise rather profound questions about what we need any of these guys for?

Yes. But no more so than dozens of earlier indications which seem to be forgotten when they matter most.