Have you considered the possibility that the entire model is wrong?
I'm 45. We've had Conservative Prime Ministers for slightly more than two thirds of my life, after which we appear to be incapable of, inter alia, building a couple of hundred miles of railway; housing the working-age population without financially crippling them first; dealing efficiently or humanely with a smaller number of asylum-seekers than other countries seem to cope with.
Perhaps it is the ideology that will happily junk twenty years of infrastructure and capacity planning to allow headroom in nonsense self-imposed rules for giveaway pre-election tax-cuts that's wrong and the issues you identify are just symptoms of that?
I don't think that stacks up; whatever you think of the Thatcher/Major governments, they did actually do things, including delivering infrastructure such as the Channel Tunnel and City airport.
What you describe in the second paragraph isn't really ideology, it's tactics in the absence of any guiding long-term principle.
Have you considered the possibility that the entire model is wrong?
I'm 45. We've had Conservative Prime Ministers for slightly more than two thirds of my life, after which we appear to be incapable of, inter alia, building a couple of hundred miles of railway; housing the working-age population without financially crippling them first; dealing efficiently or humanely with a smaller number of asylum-seekers than other countries seem to cope with.
Perhaps it is the ideology that will happily junk twenty years of infrastructure and capacity planning to allow headroom in nonsense self-imposed rules for giveaway pre-election tax-cuts that's wrong and the issues you identify are just symptoms of that?
I don't think that stacks up; whatever you think of the Thatcher/Major governments, they did actually do things, including delivering infrastructure such as the Channel Tunnel and City airport.
What you describe in the second paragraph isn't really ideology, it's tactics in the absence of any guiding long-term principle.