The irony is that all their ridiculous schemes of ‘wealth redistribution’ will do is lower the general standard of living. It won’t in any significant way change the economic hierarchy. Even if they took everything away from one group and gave it to another, in the end the hierarchy would reestablish itself as it was. The only way things permanently change for people is when those changes come from their own ambitions and efforts.
Labour imposed socialism on a Britain that was beaten down by thirty years of bad times. Almost thirty years of depression followed, with small bleeps now and then. What was the the freest people in Europe in 1914 was by 1945, the most regimented in Europe.