Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Point well made, GP.

Not sure it’s entirely ‘irresolvable’ though.

Isn’t the simple truth that the proverbial nettle has begun to be grasped. IF we want good schools in buildings that are fit for purpose and likewise…good hospitals, dentistry facilities, cleaner rivers and better roads etc then we have to pay for them and I can’t see how most of the required funding will come from anywhere other than taxation.

So yes, we may be superficially worse off with higher taxation…but we’ll hopefully be better off in terms of our grandchildren’s schooling, our hospital waiting lists, dentist availability, the use of AI within the NHS, and the ability to travel without encountering tyre bursting or accident causing potholes. Question then is…which route do we want to take?

That’s the theory anyway. Of course if it all comes to nothing they’ll have failed and will be voted out. If it eventually works however…then I’ll regard us as being ‘richer’.
I do think that they should have levied higher taxes on high earners, whilst until such times as we re-join the customs union and/or the single market, economic growth will continue to be low. But I guess over the next 2 or 3 years Labour will perhaps move towards this, because they surely know that this is the case.