Thought this was interesting and balanced, while also showing why things are so difficult to fix right now: everyone has a different, valid problem.
EDIT: Also, before you all get angry at me, the writer’s answer is: basically yes, with caveats.
Pretty decent article I was not expecting from the guardian. But fair play. It’s quite a tricky situation to accept. People want the easy answer and the easy answer is… it’s not easy 😞.
If not, the public will give others a go in charge, and those that promise simple solutions are likely to make things worse.
Oh dear. Reform incoming?
Dunno, the main takeaway for me was “ideally we’d do a wealth tax, but we can’t enforce it and we have no ideas.”
But we absolutely can enforce it (i.e. close tax havens, close open loopholes, tax dividends above a certain threshold), we just don’t
What drives me up the wall is that Labour clearly see that there are no easy answers, but every time they have to choose, they either pick a delaying tactic OR the option most likely to annoy their own voters (or both!), with the result that they are neither fixing anything properly nor giving themselves any chance of being re-elected. I’m tearing my hair out watching them.
Agreed. What we were promised at the start is not the way it’s turned out with this government.
We got more houses, renters rights were bolstered, and some rail networks up north were nationalized. It’s not much, but they’ve done more for the working and middle class in a year, than 10 years of Tories did
We got more houses
They haven’t been built yet. What we got was the promise of more houses in a few years.
