Caleo
Dickens, I agree and will vote Labour.
The problem is Caleo, in order to garner votes, Labour has to appeal to the Left, Middle and Right. Anything that veers too far Left will alienate the latter two and I'm pretty sure Starmer knows that. In other words, Labour has to become more centre, centre-right to survive. The original purpose and ethos of the Labour movement is pretty much gone.
I shall vote tactically because I want to see this current Tory party gone. My Conservative MP is a good guy in terms of what he does for the local community - he's 'old-school' Tory, so it's a bit of a dilemma.
I think the most we can hope for from a Labour government is a softening of the edges of hard-right ideology (and hopefully less sleaze and corruption) but the free-market economy will still rule. I don't think there's anything radical in the LP manifesto.
Social and ongoing medical care, particularly for the elderly, is a huge mess and it would, unfortunately, take radical measures for any meaningful change. I don't expect to see much improvement in any measurable sense. Convalescent homes funded by the State are not coming back. We're so far down the rabbit hole now that we'd have to excavate the whole damned field... if you see what I mean!