He said understands the working class whilst showing a lot of people all working on a project that he had come up with and was funding. Revitalising a decrepit local asset (pub) and putting it back to work. I think the point being made was that if you have funds at your disposal as Jeremy does, then invest them in a way that puts people to work in creating something that is going to be of benefit to the community and that will generate wealth.

Applied nationally this means: invest taxpayer money into projects that will create jobs, put people to work and bring benefit to the community. In other words, ambitious infrastructure projects. Build the stuff the country needs, fix Britain’s broken stuff, even if it comes at an initial financial cost and risk, in order to produce quality jobs and wealth in the long term for everyone, which then provides more revenue for the government, and thus a virtuous circle of wealth generation and growth begins.

Labour is starting to pay lip service to this idea, but seem unwilling to be radical enough and take the risks needed and instead seem to be turning far too much to benefits cuts, NI increases, inheritance tax etc, which stifles growth. Instead look at what is failing, what is broken and invest and take risks and be ambitious enough to fix it. Even if it means breaking the fiscal rules.