They've been raking in tax from fuel prices and inflation so they could do very much more. The current PM is AWOL mumbling about deep state no doubt and his replacements are trying to out fascist each other so I'm not holding my breath
So, ah, *coughs delicately*, remind me.... which party were we told was going to "take us back to the 70s"? 'Cos, you know, plebs like me just get so lost in the intellectual cut and thrust of modern political debate. Westminster is broken. Utterly and completely.
if only that man could do the impossible and look good eating a sandwich, think of what could of been
So inflation is being driven by all those workers who have effectively had either no pay rise or below inflation pay rises since, I dunno, the Tories came to power. Company profits rolling in and more billionaires than ever, jog on.
And don't forget the future huge costs of making up for decades of chronic underinvestment in infrastructure just to rub some extra salt into the economic wounds.