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Definitely, although the difficult prospect for this is that a period of calm governance doesn't look likely to be able to increase living standards to a meaningful degree. It might just temper the decline in some of the worst parts of our economic lives, which as you say is preferable to this clusterfuck, but not sufficient either.
A saying about not trying to eat the elephant whole comes to mind.
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Yeah it's all about messaging and a kind of quiet radicalism, which does mean they need to be careful not to be too easily categorised as the traditional 20th century left. That's probably what Labour think they're doing, but I don't think they meet the threshold.
Definitely, although the difficult prospect for this is that a period of calm governance doesn't look likely to be able to increase living standards to a meaningful degree. It might just temper the decline in some of the worst parts of our economic lives, which as you say is preferable to this clusterfuck, but not sufficient either.
Anyway, probably worth waiting for the manifesto at this point!