Yes, I expanded on my previous post. I was meaning the whole spending on anything related to health care including the build of new hospitals, wages etc.
To expand further, think about every hospital built, and whether it goes over budget by the amount HS2 did. That is money that needs to be found from elsewhere in an unplanned manner. Unplanned expense is always more expensive. Taxes, increased borrowing, or reductions in budgets from other areas. Then think about the layers of inefficient management and the associated pay bill. The amount of waste is staggering. Streeting has done well in the time that he has had, but there is so much more that is possible.
Then expand that into every other area, including the cost of government itself. No current cabinet member has, to my knowledge, ever really run a business, or worked in commercial industry. Mind you, the previous government did have cabinet members who had and they didn't resolve it well either.
I don't believe any of it is simple, including immigration. I think that reducing processing time is the best that can be achieved at the moment, and they're doing that. The preference appears to be reductions in waiting times for operations, and similar, which is much more where I would prefer to see effort expended.
Immigration has been a stir up that has tapped into a visceral feeling amongst the electorate, but it really isn't the problem is is purported or perceived to be, unless you include the fact that we need immigration for economic reasons and the fact that it is reducing is detrimental.
It will be interesting to see how the next few days unravel. Changing PM is not a good thing, but then again Starmer is not exactly covering himself in glory. He's done well on the international stage, but not so much on the domestic one.