Why we saw growth under a Labour government

I haven't watched the Youtube but it's fairly easy for a government that believes in a big state to generate growth by simply making the state bigger - which is what Brown did for the whole time he was chancellor. Making the state bigger increases GDP of course, but the state doesn't figure directly in the productivity figures so it needs funding. And Brown funded it be letting borrowing rip and relaxing credit controls. Which of course led to the Credit Crunch. It was all predictable and was predicted.

Then you should watch the video because you don't know what happened.

Labour are just as much in the dark as the Cons. It will get worse as well, because they do not get what is going on. You can tell by the News. Some things are just ignored completely.

You point to problems, yet give zero context.  Austerity was an EU policy, which ALL THE EU adopted... because Western Economies were wrecked by the financial crisis.  If Labour had still been in power they would have been made to adopt austerity, no ifs or buts, because they were treaty bound to meet EU fiscal rules.  The cost of living / inflation was caused by the COVID lockdowns that THE LEFT SUPPORTED (and actually argued for longer ones lol).  Then add Ukraine and Brexit to the mix.

So yeah, start your argument from here, not some bullshit that the last 12 years is all because of the Tories.

Personally, I want a grown-up Social Democratic party, but we simply don't have one in the UK.  Instead we have finger pointing, virtue signalers who offer no positive vision for the future.  There is literally nobody worth voting for.

Austerity was a policy adopted by many countries, but it was not an EU policy as you suggest, it was a choice made by the Conservative led coalition government, in particular David Cameron and George Osborne.

The only EU nations which must adopt similar fiscal rules are those nations which are part of the Eurozone.

The Labour leadership of Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling were not alone in calling for a delay to cuts, followed by a more gradual cutting of budgets, their approach was backed by Nick Clegg and Vince Cable.

The Labour Chancellor stated that "an immediate, deep cutting of public spending would more than likely cut-off growth" and that growth should be allowed to get fully established before austerity measures were implemented.

After the election, the Lib Dems changed their minds, and went for the Tory policy of immediate and deep cuts

Growth which had been established after the recession, and under the Labour government, was then cut-off, growth fell ... the forecast of Brown and Darling was proven to be 100% correct.

Every forecast, every prediction ever made by George Osborne never came to fruition, his budget estimates were all blown way off course. He said at the despatch box that "unless we embark upon his measures, we would find ourselves in the same situation as Greece, and that we would lose our AAA Credit Rating ... three years later we lost our Triple A Credit Rating.

The Stability & Growth Pact ( Agreements ) under which EU members agree to remain within certain borrowing parameters, has been breeched by every member of the European Union.

When breached, the rules say that the government must take measures to fix the breach of the agreed rule

Economics is coplicated ... The best weapon against debt or deficit as a percentage of GDP is Growth, it IS NOT to cut spending, though this could help.

You may have 400 Million pounds deficit in a given year, if that figure remains the same, but you have steady or strong growth, then that figure of £400 Million actually falls as a percentage of GDP.

I still contend that Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown were 100% correct in what they said in 2009 / 2010 in the run-up to the general election.

Delay cuts, let the growth which had been established continue, let growth accelerate, then introduce moderate, steady cuts to budgets, without cutting off growth.

If Alistair Darling had been Chancellor of the Exchequer 2010 - 2015, our debt would have fallen much quicker, and growth would have been stronger.

You just can't resist pushing the insinuating dishonest anti-NL rightist propaganda. You do not understand that you are pure poison to the idea of decency and objectivity and are thereby helping to reinforce the circular political nonsense the UK continually gets stuck in.
Judging by your posts you and your ilk are a major blockage to UK progress.