This government does not invest in the future – the school concrete scandal shows that

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Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) is a lightweight building material used from the 1950s up to the mid-1990s (PA)

There was never going to be a better opportunity to mend the school buildings problem – about which the government was well aware – than when schools were closed during the pandemic.

No surprise that no action was taken since we have been governed for over a decade by a government that has had no long-term plan to improve the lot of the nation’s citizens, other than to have an ideological commitment to austerity measures followed by a fixation with Brexit. Neither of these policies made any sense and we are reaping the bitter harvest that it will take a generation to rectify.

As if the next generation had not suffered enough through being kept from adequate schooling in 2020 and 2021, this current scandal shows how little our government is prepared to care for or invest in the future of anyone other than themselves.