Seeing news of the delegation to shanghai to promote the property market in China:
https://theshiftnews.com/2025/12/11/labour-mps-shanghai-private-visit-raises-questions-over-overlap-with-ministerial-delegation/
Government is pushing on adding more competition to the local market, further increasing the price of property. This makes me think that really, they have no real plan on improving the economy other than pushing for more construction and increasing the population.
Not sure what is the endgame here or what target they are trying to reach.
Labour is adamant on keeping adding fuel to the property market
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I think this is their attempt to cozy up to China in a small way. We all see what is happening to weaken the EU and US.
Ultimate treason. Selling the majority population’s future away. Who in their right mind would do such a thing if they had nothing to gain personally?
The economy right now simply grows on paper, with the main two factors being population and property. When the government notices that the economy is starting to stumble, they manually step in and push these things further past their limit.
Our economy grows simply because we keep literally importing people to this country, influencing growth on paper, whilst the overall quality of life decreases making it less livable than it ever was.
The sad part is that most voters don’t recognize this, because all they hear is bobby telling them that the economy is growing (Or be it your leader of choice), and they start clapping and cheering as if it means something, when their problems at home get worse year by year.
Neither party will do anything about this, as they both know that these two factors are the only thing keeping the country growing on paper, and no-one wants to be responsible for an economic recession, not labour nor nationalists as that cements the oppositions’ position to lead government for the next 15 years.
What happens usually is:
Economic Recession – Governing Party is tainted with the idea that they caused the recession – Opposition wins the following election and takes credit for the economy recovering (Even if it was their predecessor who implemented the ideas required for the economy to recoup) – Remains in government for 15-20 years running on the idea that they fixed the economy when the opposition couldn’t