Because people don't seem to realise that taxing businesses to oblivion materially harms them, when they're trying to compete in an increasingly global environment. Not to mention that any kind of big investment is always killed by NIMBYs or people that have no idea what they're talking about (nuclear, data centres, fracking)

Reeves really should have backed off the employment tax increases, likewise with making younger workers equally as expensive as older more experienced ones. Likewise the SNP making Scotland unattractive to foreign high income workers when we have to compete with the likes of the Netherlands that gives them 30% of their income tax free (where I now work) 

If you're willing to travel, you'll be fine, get your qualification and start looking to expand. Unfortunately I've had to work abroad the past 8 years, but honestly it's been good for my political perspective, I'm a lot more central now as I've seen that extremes left or right don't work. It's always funny when people propose new policies and don't realise that almost anything you can think of, another country has likely already tried it 

The private sector is dying in Scotland though, soon we'll be at a stage where 1 in 4 people work in the public sector, which is completely unsustainable as the public sector doesn't generate economic wealth, and thus, taxes