Quote Originally Posted by DryCleaning View Post
undoubtedly we would have seen less austerity, but whether that impacts the economy overall is debatable. All you are doing is shifting who has the money to spend.

In respect of your latter point, whilst at a party level I would agree, I think its a bit more complicated vis a vis the electorate. The collapse of the red wall across the north of England is down to Brexit. Lifelong Labour voters switching party alignment simply because they did not really understand what Labour's position was.
Lets be honest they didn't have one apart from try and stop Brexit, although that was split, and cost them the New Blue Wall!