This is the issue.
I’ve name changed a few times but I’m always met with outrage and accusations of being right wing because I poop the party by reminding everyone that all the very expensive things they feel entitled to as a human right have a cost, and that cost has to be paid by someone.
It’s this denialism and lack of reality, coupled with the flip side which is Tory incompetence and lack of vision, which is holding the country back by preventing any kind of viable future planning.
Literally nobody apart from an arsehole would withhold the standard of living called for on here as a right unless if it was actually possible. But it isn’t - no country has managed it, not even the much covered Scandinavian societies.
Nobody seems to accept that we are constrained by global trends, that things cost money (would you work for free?), and that what seems like the moral right thing is not always sustainable.
Instead we just have howling and demanding of things which are so unattainable it’s almost laughable - for maternity leave to be until kids go to school, benefits which enable the claimants to have holidays and nice things but don’t disincentivise working, healthcare which is funded completely via central taxation but which is also excellent, comprehensive and has tiny waiting lists.
And there’s no acceptance of our part to play in this, no individual responsibility. Our population are (frankly) like children, eating junk, vaping, getting obese, refusing to take the most miniature steps to control their own health issues, popping out children they can’t afford while moaning they don’t have a big enough house or that things are unaffordable while making zero contribution to the common pot.
It’s a shame, with a dose of realism and self awareness we could turn it around but nobody wants to face their own role in this. Instead it’s just blame everyone else