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  • Isnt the main issues that voters have the cost of living, failing nhs, landlords?

    Planning regulations aren’t going to see any wins, nor is improving energy girds, important as those things are.

    Its been shown that increases in housing stock has minimal effects on rent prices. A very cheap solution to this is rent control, it literally costs nothing. They could also build social housing if they wanted to invest money in something useful.

    The NHS needs money, there is no getting around this unfortunately. All the fat trimming has been done.

    Cost of living is obviously more complicated and i won’t pretend to understand that level of macro. But you seem to be concerned that increases in deficit ie borrowing would cause debts to increase. This always happens when any government does anything remotely left wing, look at how the USA treats cuba. The political fact is that to be left wing you have to accept USA aligned countries making it more expensive for you to borrow. If Corbyn had won we would have been battered by this, but the trick is to nationalise the economy and become independent.

    I can sympathise with some of what you’re saying,but you make it out as if néolibéral policy is capable of doing those things as well as positioning it as the only route possible, which is disingenuous. You’re making a political statement, not a descriptive diagnosis.