I quite like a fair bit of what I've heard from KS, but I fear a lot hasn't been mentoned and we may not be so keen when we hear it.
I wonder when we'll hear from the train drivers again.
I don't think such bodies should fund political parties. It's only a few million quid, it should come from the Treasury.
Take any group - nurses, say. Well educated and important people for sure, but I don't want them controlling the country's finances.
I wonder how the largest contributor, one energy company, will fare.
https://labourlist.org/2024/06/labour-party-top-donors-2024/
I'm happy to see just a few Reform seats with noisy MPs, I think we aren't Nationalist enough, in a few areas. That's quite distinct from "Right wing".
The country's debt repayments are at 98% of our GDP. That's unsustainable. Covid/Ukraine in large part, the Tories if you like, but whatever the reason, it needs a plan for putting it straight.
Of course we need growth, and some departments seriously need their heads wobbling. But for a while, I think we probably need higher taxes too. But taxes do damage, sometimes disproportionately to the amount of money they raise.
We imho need some new laws, for example setting out how some companies may operate in this country even if their HQs are abroad. Too many of them are clearly doing it wrongly.
Looking up where the UK comes in terms of relative wealth etc, an interesting fact popped out. Number one near enough, in terms of PPP (well-off-ness) is Ireland.