Now then, you Tory apologists. A good number of us proper lefties (which Gordon and Tony were most decidedly not) were absolutely against PFIs and the academisation of schools. But be honest. By all means blame New Labour for initiating these things of which you moan, but let's face it: your lot has jumped on them with mighty enthusiasm and ballooned them out of any proportion that those initiators envisaged. You didn't have to do it, so stop whingeing about it, eh?