It won't happen unfortunately...
I can feel this post turning into another anti-leftist rant already, but here in the UK at least, we have a government so obssessed with "making the country better" that they're measuring every conceivable facet of modern life and issuing performance targets in a manner not seen since the last Stalinist "Five Year Plan".

I kid you not, an accepted government gauge for the contentment of a local community is to assess and measure the amount of birdsong each person can hear.

I wish I were joking, but billions of pounds of taxpayers money has been spent on thinktanks to come up with this stuff. And when Tony/Gordon stands up and says that "Britain is better!" it's because he has in his hand statistics which prove that these measurements of the human conditon have improved thanks to targets and legislation. A self-fulfilling prophecy akin to the Emperor's new clothes.

They geniunely believe that we're happier nearer green spaces or listening to larks than we would be if petrol and food were cheaper. The mind actually boggles.

On the flipside, we have rampant consumerism with co-ordinated marketing designed to make our little darlings put unreasonable pressure on adults to buy them tat.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 24 Apr 2008, 12:25, Reply)