If there’s no more money it’s not going to change. There’s no point looking back to another time as an indication of what will happen.
Look at the policies suggested and, in particular, the funding and taxing side not the promises. The taxation is very similar from both parties, further borrowing is out.
I also think given the huge population changes we’re seeing the five year extra time on net zero stuff makes sense.
1 in 11 in NHS by 2036. That is huge
I really can’t abide Starmer but I was thinking of a list I’d like to see
Drop the small fry policies with low benefit as they’re likely to do more harm than good to the sector - VAT (and non dom will just make people leave earlier)
Legislate against gender ID
Really consider mass displacement of people and how that will be handled. Don’t just say we’ll make it easy and process faster as we will have very high numbers
Energy security - recognise we will need to be strong with oil & gas as we transition because the world will demand it of us
I don’t care about cars, changes to IHT, abolishing Lords (costly, time consuming and likely to benefit more extreme politics)
The boom time was the equivalent to a credit card spree you pay for later. Regardless of the party at the time it won’t come back.
I think we’re in for a tough time but either party could concentrate on the above and I’d like to hear about it