Thread by @rcolvile

Oh God. This is pretty much a planned economy.

https://twitter.com/julianHjessop/status/1418300253795758080

.@julianHjessop is right. I've never read anything less likely to work smoothly, or less attuned to how businesses/the real world actually operates.

And as @jonathansimons points out, where are the civil servants to do this analysis and write these letters going to come from? Or does it get handed to Serco etc?

But it’s the basic idea that gets me - the innate assumption that civil servants are better qualified to judge precisely what the economy needs on a daily basis than the companies which *actually make up that economy*

At least this is only for the next three weeks. But what a three weeks.