All hyperbole aside, if (and that is a big if) labour get in we'd see some limited improvements in some areas in conjunction with things getting worse in others.
As everything is going down the shitter at the moment and labour don't have the will or inclination to bring about the kind of changes needed to stop it, those improvements probably won't register. People don't notice so much when their lives could have gotten even worse after all.
We'd see a lot of noise about education, healthcare and social care probably some extra funding for schools, hospitals, extra funding for higher and further ed. Most of that will be snaffled up by private sector sharks of course but realistically things probably won't get as shit as fast as they would have otherwise so again not that noticeable.
I'd also expect the whole surveilance state thing to be massively amped up. I think the tories would absolutely do this too, but I think the direction Labour takes on it might be slightly different and weirdly worse in some ways.
In terms of people who would actually benefit. Firstly, middle class and upper middle classes in the right circles will be absolutely raking it in cos there will be weird think tanks and whatnot popping up like mushrooms after rain to hoover up govt funding. If labour win, it'd also prob mean that the northern constituencies that flipped last time went back. Labour might have enough braincells to rub together to work out it might be worth investing more in those areas but I don't really know.
Either way, they'll get 4 yrs, 8 tops before it goes back to the conservatives and once again it'll be really fucking hard to spot a genuine difference between them.
All hyperbole aside, if (and that is a big if) labour get in we'd see some limited improvements in some areas in conjunction with things getting worse in others.
As everything is going down the shitter at the moment and labour don't have the will or inclination to bring about the kind of changes needed to stop it, those improvements probably won't register. People don't notice so much when their lives could have gotten even worse after all.
We'd see a lot of noise about education, healthcare and social care probably some extra funding for schools, hospitals, extra funding for higher and further ed. Most of that will be snaffled up by private sector sharks of course but realistically things probably won't get as shit as fast as they would have otherwise so again not that noticeable.
I'd also expect the whole surveilance state thing to be massively amped up. I think the tories would absolutely do this too, but I think the direction Labour takes on it might be slightly different and weirdly worse in some ways.
In terms of people who would actually benefit. Firstly, middle class and upper middle classes in the right circles will be absolutely raking it in cos there will be weird think tanks and whatnot popping up like mushrooms after rain to hoover up govt funding. If labour win, it'd also prob mean that the northern constituencies that flipped last time went back. Labour might have enough braincells to rub together to work out it might be worth investing more in those areas but I don't really know.
Either way, they'll get 4 yrs, 8 tops before it goes back to the conservatives and once again it'll be really fucking hard to spot a genuine difference between them.
So it's the USA then