Tories would absolutely be in power. The remain campaign was Cameron’s and the wider establishment’s camp.
No one on the left was vocally pro-remain because supporting neoliberal institutions like the EU and it’s baggage of World Bank and IMF isn’t exactly at the top of leftists minds. Even JC was pro-Brexit way back in the day. I’m pro-EU as a pragmatic thing but I think it would be hard to get the left excited about this. It’s part of why Brexit won really, they had basically no opposition from anyone apart from the most swampiest and wooden of stooges.
their housing prices would be less like NZ and Canada and more like the European average.
I just don’t see the connection. To avoid the housing issues present in the UK now, there would need to be radical nationalized housebuilding campaigns which would require both a party willing to tank house prices for the largest voting block - elderly homeowners.
They would need to fight past NIMBYism and tear up nonsensical environmental regulations (brown land, greens being anti-nuclear, skyline protections), obliterate red tape and cut out the middle-man private compliance consultancies sucking the government dry.
Then they’d need to then again radicalize the largest voting block of the population, the wealthy and the house of lords, alongaide the vast majority of MPs (who are Landlords) by taxing landlords heavily to prevent all new housing going to a few mafias of landlords who will price fix it.
By far most of this country’s productive investment capital is tied up in housing and land, so this would likely create an economic crash as the sheikhs and various russian oligarchs, and other assorted abramoviches of the world pull out of expensive London real estate.
They then would need to scrap some expensive programs like triple lock, foresee that the megaprojects are a waste and do small developments and upgrades to infrastructure to cope with and supply for new housing, alongside nationalising utilities to lower prices both for themselves in getting the new builds connected, and also for the eventual tenants/owners on the bills, which would leave them with disposable income to spend in the economy.
All this would also require lower borrowing costs and either less debt or more GDP to leverage to borrow at lower interest rates, which would require a state that didn’t sell off all of its money making assets in the 80s to private investors who ran with it and are now taking the piss, sometimes down our rivers.
None of those are things the UK has or would have had with or without Brexit.
Unless you can cite a source that attributes house prices increases to Brexit explicitly, or speculate on how a causal relationship would actually work, I don’t see how the two relate in the slightest. I don’t want to be dismissive either - if you have some idea, do tell me and I’d hear ya out.
The reason housing prices in the UK outpace Western Europe isn’t something I’m aware of either, but I think a safe assumption is that demand must be a large factor, safe to assume that immigration to english-speaking countries adds additional demand the housing sector can’t meet, exacerbating the existing issues.
Back like four years ago when I was at uni, I wrote a real cringy sci-fi short story set in a future where political dissent had been neutered almost completely by a total subversion of language via commodification.
Essentially everything and anything was a brand, “anarchy” was a brand of shoe, even “terror” was a pack of potato chips, and “terrorists” were stans of that pack of potato chips, making it impossible to even talk about any kind of rebellion or alternative thought, and bots would perpetuate these alternative definitions, making it seem like they were more common, sort of like how if you own 51% of some primitive blockchains you can manufacture transactions.
Sufficed to say I’m glad it’s not true, but it’s worrying how consensus reality has collapsed and is now shaped by the few rich and powerful interests, not too dissimilar from what I imagined as a fun hobby creative exercise in imagining the most soulcrushing world imaginable.
It was also just a prologue to a story that featured ‘carbon capture gone wrong’ turning the world into a Sahara-esque desert, through which caravans of brave desert travellers delivered scarce goods between human settlements, assisted by navigators who sit in office buildings and make sure the caravans don’t get lost in the constant sandstorms. Then there was a conspiracy by the main love interest, a Fallout-esque cartoonish A.I. and the navigators’ boss who liked to LARP as a pre-collapse middle manager, they’d drug the navigator crew to keep the protagonist from finding out the shock twist that the travellers are slaves, amongst other things like the fact the rich all left in space rockets, are in contact with earth, live in relative luxury and that there are still functioning rockets on earth.
Also at various stages of conception it had time travel, alt-history and of course - the space shuttle, because autism.