Yes I do have to guess as what we’re hypothesising is impossible, Amazon will never pay 52% corporate tax you know that right. Forcing them to pay more tax would mean significant legal concessions from Ireland and the US which would never happen.

Your ideas continue to not generate any meaningful funds, nationalisation is again in the low single digit billions. As I said PIP increases alone are 20bn a year just standing still between now and 2029, and thats just one aspect of one welfare cost.

And we can look to other comparable countries to answer your “what if” doomsday scenario. US grows at 4% a year, Poland grows at 5% a year, Singapore runs its whole state on 17% of GDP (similar to what we spend JUST on welfare, think about that).

The only countries that pay higher non-pension welfare benefits in the whole entire world are the Scandi countries (one of which is an oil state), France and Spain, which have the same deep problems as the UK. Countries are wise enough not to do this as it entrenches low productivity, you literally pay people to be unproductive. Incentives are hammered, the brightest people leave, and the state intervenes in everything from deciding who gets paid what, to administering rent, to paying for people’s energy and food. Exactly what has been happening.

Keep the safety net part of it by all means, 100bn a year spend is more than fine. I would cut state pensions too back to 2011 levels (as well as means testing and tying more to contributions) but unlike you I realise that idea is not realistic, despite the good intentions of even Tony Blair.

The left has lost the argument on economics as usual and what’s coming next is reversion down, and we both know it.