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The reason I've gone more left in recent years is that I previously accepted that we simply couldn't afford decent cheap housing, heavily subsidised transport, a universal basic income, etc. Then in 20 years in politics I saw what we actually could afford. And it's a lot. It's just never for you.

The people who tell you money doesn't grow on trees, or quote Thatcher by saying "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money" are constantly running out of other people's pension funds with their dumb startup ideas that somehow got Series A funding.

This warped and disingenuous idea of socialism being a free for all for layabouts actually does exist. It just exists for rich, privileged people who consider it their entitlement. If you're from a poor background, that comes with guilt about earning or having too much money. They never had that.

They are fanatically devoted to one simple principle: The more we spend on ordinary people and their irritating needs the less there is available to steal.