Re: Add it to the pile
@rg287
"No. They're not. The people want energy security and affordable housing"
Since when? People wanted green energy, which included not fracking for the gas we need and stopping nuclear from being developed. And who wants affordable housing? Its all about protecting the green belts and making things more restrictive and difficult i.e expensive.
"They want public transport."
Do they? Only if it is subsidised and not their problem, otherwise nope.
"British governments have withheld investment for all these things for decades"
Except the govs (labour and tory) have blown loads on energy investment into those glorious monuments to a sky god. People are complaining about housing not being up to higher spec's and wanting to attack the rental market, which of course pushes up the price. So on it goes.
"They have cut back healthcare, policing and social services."
By shoving more money at them? The NHS for example keeps being shoved money and they still complain. The UK pays about OECD average for healthcare and gets a worse result. But people want the NHS, they love the under-performing institution. Police are funded more than in 2010 before it started to come down a little bit before rising again. The department of health and social care has seen rising payments especially over covid.
"withheld the revenue power they needed to fund capital infrastructure."
Thurrock council takes exception to the infrastructure claim- https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/politics-isnt-a-good-way-to-do-things
"They were promised a better future"
They can be promised a unicorn it doesnt matter. This is why they need to be asked about what they propose and then honestly look at the trade offs. Such as when they all spout green credentials, you know we wont have energy. They promise to build more homes, will they be removing the regs that get in the way of house building? The commies promised a better future, you need to use your brains that their plans are insane and dont work.
People got what they wanted. Years and years into decades of what they wanted. If they dont like it they need to rethink their opinions. Government keeps spending more, we have high taxation, the public sector ever increases and people complain about how public services are run. It isnt correlation there its causation.