“I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises.
You start with far-fetched resolutions.
They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code,
and you go through the years sticking to that, out-dated, mis-placed, irrelevant to the real needs,
and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council – a Labour council - hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers".