The UK has always had low wages and high taxes compared to similar countries, this had been survivable for a long time, but extreme austerity and a complete failure to recover from the crash in 2008 meant the buffers the UK had to get on okay with low wages was gone. On top of that a large enough portion of the population either don’t want things to improve, or they think not a single penny of their own money should be used for the good of the country. Those things are never going to create a stable economy with good public services.
On top of that a one term solution is impossible, so that prevents change as people who simply don’t understand basic economics will spit their dummy out because the UK isn’t fixed in a couple of years.
Its like the lies of mass immigration, rather than help solve an issue, for many inventing a cause is preferable.
We have left the UK, we don’t think the UK is shit, but we know its in a mess at the moment. Where we now live we earn more and pay less in taxes, we also have lower costs as childcare is extremely cheap, health care we have used has been very good (I’m currently in hospital, the care has been brilliant, food is great etc, its comparable to private care in the UK), our sons school is good, wrap around care is not just a right, there’s also no additional cost, the same with school meals. If we were on the same wage we had in the UK we would still be better off here by about £1,300 per month, this is mainly due to childcare, however we only used childcare in the UK three days a week, so it was ‘cheap’ compared to many. If any of our two decide to attend university here it won’t cost anything in fees.