Soiling of Language: Public Policy in Trouble

We lost PPP. Now, net zero seems to be in trouble. Why? We twist policy. In 2018, the then UK Chancellor Philip Hammond announced PPP dead. But wait, PPP underpins the UK. It comes from Tony Blair's effort to end adversarial working in the UK construction industry. Blair flagged his 1997 manifesto 'partnering'. Then, the claims expert was king. That's no more. The UK construction industry has been exceptionally collegial since the late 1990s. Partnering anchors construction in the country. Yet, the term PPP was stolen by private finance. So, Hammond ditched it. And don't blame him. An aspect of the ecosystem (private finance) had grabbed the terminology. It was now twisted. And indeed, across the world, PPP remains twisted - the terminology diffused twisted. Now, net zero seems in trouble. Look, humanity binged on oil. That wanton consumerism had to end. I was in Shanghai last year. I had returned after nearly a decade. Shanghai is way more pleasant. Why? The roaring ICE vehicles have been replaced by EVs. That's a good thing. But net zero is being pulled to the extremes of the policy dialogue. We might lose it. Policy dialogue is at a point of bother.

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