Re-structuring is changes in structural relations, notably between economic and non-economic fields, which include extensive ‘colonization’ of the latter (including politics and the State) by the former; re-scaling is changing relations between global, regional, national and local scales of social life, including changes in government and governance. Analysing these tendencies would help contextualize the UK strategies and policies which are in focus – i.e. help determine what they are a part of. National governments are increasingly incorporated within larger networks which include not only other governments but also international agencies (e.g. the European Union, the World Bank, the IMF)’ business networks and so forth. Governments, according to Castells (1996), are increasingly coming to function as ‘nodes’ within a transnational network based upon a business-government complex, whose central ‘functions’ are focused upon creating the conditions (financial, legal, ‘functions’ are focused upon creating the conditions (financial, fiscal, legal ‘human capital’, etc.) for successful competition in the ‘global economy’. If the government strategies and policies in focus here are locked into this powerful network, this in itself constitutes a substantial obstacle to addressing the social wrong.