Finally Worthy

A costed plan to rebuild Britain by the centenary of VE Day 2045. Not a manifesto. An operating plan.The diagnosis was the easy part. This is the rebuild.Britain's institutions have been rebuilt, over forty years, so that failure belongs to no one. The companion to this book, THE STENCH OF THE STATE, diagnosed that condition - the process state, a machine for producing procedure instead of accountable decision. This book answers it. FINALLY WORTHY sets out a sixteen-year programme to rebuild the British state by the centenary of VE Day in 2045. It is built on a single principle: every significant task placed in the hands of a named person, or a named body, given the resources, the authority, and the honest constraints to deliver it - and answerable for the result. Defence, the public finances, welfare, energy, the constitution: each is rebuilt around accountability that can be located, not diffused. That principle is not invented for this book. It is a proven doctrine of delegated, accountable leadership - the doctrine, called mission command, by which the most complex undertakings in modern history have actually been carried out. Phased, costed, and measured against what other democracies have genuinely achieved, this is not a manifesto and not a wish. It is an operating plan for a state that works - and a date by which to deliver it. The second of two books. The diagnosis was the easy part. This is the rebuild.