I, Pencil anyone?

Exactly right; and the other reason is that Labour ministers are useless. You cannot hold such simplistic views and not be completely out of your depth in a ministry of tolerably intelligent civil servants hell bent on doing something completely different.

There's a passage in Mrs Thatcher's Downing Street Years where she tells how early on how her father told her how all the different products in his shop had come from all over the world, each harvester, buyer, porter, train driver, shipping clerk, captian, stoker, docker, distributor operating for their own benefit but as part of a larger, hugely complex, chain of events -all in order to brew a cup of tea in Grantham.