So just five months in the government dumps its most attractive and exciting promise to make the U.K. the fastest growing G7 economy. They want to perpetuate this century’s experience of falling further and further behind the US, clinging to EU style slow growth, high taxes and bad regulation and cosying  up for more of it.
Their excuse is they want a target that relates to how we feel and lead our lives. Boosting people’s spending power is fine, but of course it  would have happened with the faster growth they offered us for the election. Difficult to achieve without faster growth.
It makes many other Labour policies unhelpful. Most people who can afford it want to buy a petrol or diesel car. Labour will ban them soon.
Most people think U.K. energy prices are too high, cutting our real incomes. Labour put them up and want to close down more of our cheaper power generators.
Most people think their cars are the best way to get to work and the shops. Labour try to make driving dearer and more difficult.
Most people think taxes are too high and there are too many taxes. Labour puts them up on an industrial scale.
Many find it difficult to contact and deal with government who want people to deal with computers under threat of punishment if they make a mistake.Labour serves the civil servants not the public.