That's an interesting point, and basically all of that (including building new hospitals, prisons, railway, airports, defence spending) should have been done post-2008 and the last crash when interest rates were buttons. It's called pump priming and was basically the way FDR led the USA out of the Great Depression. Many economists have said at the time, and have been proved right now, that austerity was a ****ing choice, not a necessity, and apart from the apocalyptic levels of poverty and destitution it caused in areas up here in the North and Scotland, it only made the bankers and the money markets richer. And no, that wealth didn't trickle down - it went to the Cayman Islands.
The problem now about a great infrastructure programme is funding it without borrowing at ruinous rates, and as we're all now about to painfully learn, Labour will do that by soaking pensioners and inheritance that those middle-earners paying astronomical rents and mortgages were relying upon in their future planning. As Suckly said further up, I get a feeling Starmer has had that tap on the shoulder from 'them' reminding him that they, and their offshore mega-fortunes, will not being throwing their credit cards onto the table to pay for the meal.
Winter is coming.
