Other innovations will be that each private finance project will have to publish its financial performance every year and the Treasury will publish a running total of taxpayers' cumulative private finance liabilities - to allay concerns that these liabilities are becoming unaffordable.
Even then, it is simply a matter of time before the taxpayer burden associated with the cumulative impact of shouldering these and other Eastern bloc liabilities is seen as unsupportable by U.S. and allied electorates.