1945 Labour v 2025 Version

The Conservative Party, and Liz Truss in particular, is often accused of running down the country and hollowing out our institutions such as the Police, NHS and pretty much everything else in an ideological zeal.
It's a problem that the new Labour Government say they are are currently trying to correct but as they are starting from the very low base they inherited, it is going to take some time and some tough decisions, apparently even tougher if you are a Pensioner or Disabled because it was there they bizarrely decided to start before having a change of heart and deciding taking money away from the old and the weakest members of society doesn't lend itself to gaining the moral high ground so they are now looking elsewhere to bolster their depleted coffers.  
The Labour Party of 2025, has a GDP of between £3.84 trillion and $4.45 trillion to play with each year while in 1945 they had  £8.8 billion (worth £408bn today) to tinker with and that was after WW2 when pretty much everything was flattened by the Luftwaffe.
The incoming 1945 Government under Clement Attlee introduced state ownership of major industries, a universal entitlement to pensions, child benefit and introduced legal aid.
They gave us the The Education Act which established the principle of free secondary education and former armaments factories were used to turn out prefabricated dwellings and whole new council estates began to be built with bathrooms and inside toilets.
Most symbolic was giving the nation the National Health Service, a universal health-care system, free at the point of delivery, available to all, irrespective of income or status and a National Insurance Scheme introduced to pay for it.
Amazing that with the Country, at the end of World War II and with Britain's national debt standing at 270% of its GDP, a Government managed to do all that while today it stands at 97% of GDP which is still a huge amount but the Government tell us their hands are tied when it comes to spending.
Everything is political and the Government gets an annual amount to spend as it wishes but i wonder why the 1945 Labour Party with it's massive debt still decided to use its political time in office to make things better for everyone while the 2025 version is dicking around with saving £3bn by not removing the two-child benefit cap which would lift between an estimated 250,000 and 540,000 children out of poverty.
Even more obscene when you consider they have no qualms on raising the defence budget to 3% of GDP (£75bn) and that doesn't count the cost of our obscene nuclear weapons at £20bn a year so we have the money, we are just not spending it right.