I think the problem can be getting bogged down in the detail. Our banks, successive governments, civil service department and expert advisors deal with symptoms, not root causes.
House prices should never have gone up like they have…a couple of simple rules would have stopped this 40 years ago (something I used to be fond of saying back then) and would have been self regulating. A huge amount of our money has been lifted away by the banks, on an ongoing basis.
Utilities and self sufficiency should have been taken seriously. Such things should never be sold to foreign powers.
There are businesses we should always have and support as a 1st world country e.g we almost lost the ability to make steel and possibly still will! ARM (was British) is now owned by Japan. We’re a maritime nation with no shipbuilding…the gov now trying to build that up again.
Energy, we stupidly allowed our Nuclear power program to stagnate, but reprocessed waste from around the world.
We dismantled one of the most extensive rail systems in the world, for really no good reason and will never rebuild it now we need it and have done for decades.
HS2 initially budgeted at 55b, now pipped to cost 100b. at 2019 prices. It’s 7 years late. I’m pretty certain it will end up 10 to 15 years late and cost 200 billion. By 2050 the world will be different, and the need for an outdated HS2 will be long forgotten, all to save 30m on journeys.
Above is a small example…but people worry about proper pronouns and other soundbites, rather than fixing this stuff. Plus it’s our money being wasted.