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> It’s readily apparent the new government won’t save us already. I dont follow this line of reasoning too well. The conservative party was in power for fourt

• mike_hearn 2y ago
  Maybe but probably not by this point. If Starmer were engaged and keen to fix these problems, he would have clearly articulated the problems outlined on the website, stated a plan to solve them and now be doing things to advance it. What he's actually done is the opposite. For example, the website makes the point that British governments often don't do enough capital investment so state-controlled infrastructure rots away. Instead spending rises get used to buy off unions. Sure enough, within just months of Labour coming into power it's already handed out around £10 billion/yr worth of pay rises: https://inews.co.uk/news/public-sector-pay-deals-cost-3230746 https://inews.co.uk/news/public-sector-pay-deals-cost-323074... This type of behavior led to pay spirals in the 60s and 70s. We see this problem elsewhere. Labour's plan to build new prisons is simply to override local councils that are blocking planning applications, but that won't yield funds for actually building them. Where's the capital going to come from in a government that capitulates immediately to union pay demands, and which is already financially over-stretched? To do this they would need to make major cutbacks in other areas, but they have no plans to do this.