I've asked before, and I'll ask again. When are we finally going to realise austerity, debt and the global financial crisis are real, they are not a story dreamt up by George Osborne to scare the children? At a time when we're cutting back on the number of police officers, soldiers and midwives, spending ?25 million - in fact ?60 million, when the full amount of taxpayer subsidy is chucked in - on a new football ground is bonkers.