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Late reply to my own post, but I think an underappreciated point here is that people recognise things are really bad, but don't recognise that that means there's little room for manoeuvre.
Increase tax on the wealthy. There is room to manoeuvre, they just don't want to do that. Oh, and the triple lock needs to be killed, but they certainly won't have the stones for that.
The blog post does address that point!
I agree, there's some room for manoeuvre, but there are no options with no downsides. Chaminda Jayanetti had a good thread of (left-leaning) suggestions over on BlueSky. And he agrees with you about the triple lock, too.