>England has 434 homes per 1,000 people, whereas France has 590
A high real price of housing increases salary demands in skilled industries like healthcare and education (nurses and teachers expect to be able to afford a home) which results in higher government outlays, which leads to higher tax burden and diminished infrastructure investment — the UK's electric grid is inadequate for Scotland's windmills:
Historically, infrastructure was among the UK's greatest strengths: famous ports, first powered railroads, first subways, first power plant, first national radio broadcaster, second bus system (France beat them by a year), thousands of years of canals, etc... to lag in building the power grid should be seen as a serious embarrassment.
UK also has an incredible deficit of housing units and a general weakness in construction:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/09/01/britains-failur...
>England has 434 homes per 1,000 people, whereas France has 590
A high real price of housing increases salary demands in skilled industries like healthcare and education (nurses and teachers expect to be able to afford a home) which results in higher government outlays, which leads to higher tax burden and diminished infrastructure investment — the UK's electric grid is inadequate for Scotland's windmills:
https://archy.deberker.com/the-uk-is-wasting-a-lot-of-wind-p...
Historically, infrastructure was among the UK's greatest strengths: famous ports, first powered railroads, first subways, first power plant, first national radio broadcaster, second bus system (France beat them by a year), thousands of years of canals, etc... to lag in building the power grid should be seen as a serious embarrassment.