<p>Iseem to recall that when NuLab came to power, a core manifesto pledge was that they would “create more jobs.” In my ignorance, I wasn’t aware of how they’d manage it. Silly of me really because the answer was right there, in the manifesto itself – specifically in the word “create.” Of course it wouldn’t have been so bad if useless jobs were simply “created.” But in their wisdom, the government decided that this wasn’t good enough and that it must first create problems so that those in their new-found positions of uselessness, should at least feel they were doing something good. </p> <p>And so one of NuLab’s first policies was to cram us all into ever-decreasing space and make us happy to comply by telling us we were to be the happy pioneers of an “urban renaissance” and create the legions of thinktanks, agencies and delivery bodies devised to “make it happen.” Splendid. Except ten years on, and with just 25% of citydwellers having access to a garden or even a windowbox in which to grow anything, our political masters now declare themselves concerned at our “pervasive environmental illiteracy.” </p> <p>Now, you might think what’s the problem? Well, the …