TY - JOUR
AB - COMMENTARY passengers, and costly improvements and extensions to existing rail services and equi ment. No one contradicted the statement that in financial terms t rl e abandonment would not result in any saving of money. But economically there may well be a heavy loss in cienc and its consequences. The sad story of the revea Y s the Government’s failure to apply to itself the policies it is urging on private enter rise. It reveals a “ saving of candle ends ” mentality in dealing wit K a long-studied major transportation project compared with the reckless extravagance of the food subsidy policy, of which one might say : “ Never was so much spent on so little for so many ”. Yet Concorde continues indefinitely to absorb resources on a project which yields ever-increasing losses, and so does much of the public expenditure which springs from the sole motive of preserving jobs at all costs. The Government’s obsession with this aim as its supreme goal is an updated form of Ludditism, even when applied to an innovation such as a supersonic civil air trans- prt plane. If ever a policy was designed to ensure rigidity and lack of adaptability 
TI - Pandora's Box, Sovereignty and the Referendum
JF - The Political Quarterly
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-923X.1975.tb02120.x
DA - 1975-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/pandora-s-box-sovereignty-and-the-referendum-MSTjt41d0C
SP - 123
EP - 126
VL - 46
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -