Much of the population has debts and will benefit from them being inflated away too. Those who have savings could be appeased by offering inflation-linked National Savings products. Inflation was high through most of the 1980s and early 1990s and the Tories still won four General Elections.
You can only inflate away historic & long term debt, not current/future debt.
The type of debt people have has changed since the 80s & 90s as well. There's a lot more people who have ongoing credit card debt but no mortgage, & are spending all their income on things they don't own; rent, travel, etc.
The debts that got somewhat inflated away were mortgages, & it happened by house prices going up over years & years.
Your not inflating away the season ticket you've bought on a credit card that takes 3 months to pay off.
Like I said, the EU didn't even have an office block in Wales to put a giant flag on.
Personally, being both English and Welsh by parentage, birth and residence and identifying as British, I'm all for the UK Government reminding us what they do in Wales whether it's collecting taxes, paying pensions and benefits or funding the police, Defence and other services.
1) Because the EU doesn't have offices everywhere, because it doesn't work that way.
2) Local Authorities collect council tax & business rates. Retailers collect VAT.
Local Authorities also collect the Police precept, which in the case of South Wales Police is nearly 40% of their funding.
I think you are right. I've noticed more and more young Conservative activists - certainly more young councillors than Labour. This is Labour taking the votes of some for granted, while the Conservatives offer them a (possible) route to a brighter future. Labour needs to start talking to young people (your average young people, not the shouty ones) and start engaging them otherwise the Conservatives won't need to worry about converting former Labour voters, there won't be many.
That doesn't mean that there actually are more, or that they are their for the longer term.
How have you noticed this? Have you tracked councillor numbers & make-up across the years, or has their been more 'pushed' at you by the media?
I don't think we are in a disagreement about the point you have made. There is a shortage of nurses so what tends to happen is that we search far and wide and filch them from countries at the other side of the earth because they are prepared to work for lower salaries ('we' being hospital trusts). Those that are employed from this country are told it is a 'vocation' (with the implication that we won't pay you much). If we were prepared to pay more more UK residents would be enticed into the profession ('we' being HMG).
If, back in March, instead of Johnson blathering, he had said something along the lines that although public sector workers on the whole would be subjected to a pay freeze all NHS workers would get 1% but to mark the dedication of certain classes of lower paid NHS workers such as nurses we will be awarding them 4% say (they might want to add other classes at 2% say). Instead we have this panic measure which Javid has got through but I suspect the consequences that I have outlined have not been thought through.
You also need the spaces on the degree courses. Nursing courses are already full. So even if they agreed funding for extra students, by the time you've got more lecturers & teaching space, & then taught the students, it's 5 years before you get your new nurses.
Politically it's something you would have to introduce in your first year in government, & hope you can last the next 4-5 years!
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In terms of 'when will it go wrong for Johnson?', it already has. All the party/MPs are waiting for is a suitable time to ditch him & put Covid & Brexit on him.
This winter isn't going to be a good time for either of those, so it's next year before they'll move against him.