Is it possible that things would improve in the UK?

Either in terms of livelihood, domestic politics or global standing. I have the impression that our country has been stuck in a state of stagnation. What do you think?

Yes, obviously.
Lots of countries have managed to turn things around following patches of decline/stagnation. But it requires the general public to understand that with an aging population, you can simultaneously have lower taxes and have improved public service provision.

Good morning. And good to wake up to a note of optimism - something of a rarity these days! As I have said before, it's always a pleasure to read one of your posts.
I'm curious about that comment on lower taxes and improved public service provision. Could you expand on that a little?

I can only expand on it to the extent of saying it was a typo - the cost of typing on my phone on a busy tube carriage this morning. I have since corrected it to "can't" from "can".

I thought that was the case, which is the main reason why I intervened.
And I could not agree more. It brings to mind that Mervyn King comment:
'The challenge is if we want European levels of welfare payments and public spending, you cannot finance that with American levels of tax rates, so we may need to confront the need to have significantly higher taxes on the average person.
There isn't enough money there among the rich to get it back.'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63364240

Either in terms of livelihood, domestic politics or global standing. I have the impression that our country has been stuck in a state of stagnation. What do you think?

😆 Point taken!
But he's right in that quote, don't you think?
If you feel inclined, I should be interested to hear - in a nutshell - your formula for turning things round (including how to approach that 'you can't simultaneously have lower taxes and have improved public service provision conundrum.)
We could do with a bit of hope amidst all the gloom.
But hope tempered with realism.

The brexit has ruined Britain and the exonomy in particualr. Was a bad idea to change the customs union for a common wealth. When Britain is able to remove the brexit, I see hope for improvements.

PRSOM

Brexit was the worst thing that could have happened. We are, once again, the sick man of Europe.

Is it possible to get back into European Union? it has lasted so many years to leave after all.

I don't think there is any nutshell-sized formula that gets us to a more prosperous Britain. Moreover, given the quest for higher productivity cuts across dozens of different areas of economic and social policy, I don't think I have the time nor the energy to actually flesh out a proper considered response.
Nevertheless, one thing I've been thinking about over the past week is that a lot of the change is going to need to come from de-regulation. I'm not one of those neoliberal red tape cutting maniacs, but equally, the scope to driving higher potential output via labour and capital seems pretty limited to me. Raising the state pension age, cutting NHS waiting lines, improving cheap childcare provision, etc, are all sensible but are unlikely to really move the needle for the labour component of potential output. Similarly, consolidating council pension funds, higher public investment, etc, probably isn't going to do a whole lot for the capital stock. Therefore, I think a lot will have to come from reducing the regulatory burdens around home building, energy and infrastructure.
Am I confident that this will happen? Not particularly. Labour seem to be saying some sensible things on housing, albeit with little action. My glass half-full view is that the limited scope to drive growth through other factors of production means Labour might come to see de-regulation as a necessity, thus going ahead with it. But organisations and individuals like to complain when you de-regulate, so I'm concerned it will be a very slow process and that Labour don't really have the desire to drive proper change.

The brexit has ruined Britain and the exonomy in particualr. Was a bad idea to change the customs union for a common wealth. When Britain is able to remove the brexit, I see hope for improvements.

I'm with you all the way on targeted de-regulation but I think the crux of the matter lies in the dilemma that you posed in your earlier post:
'You can't simultaneously have lower taxes and have improved public service provision.'
which echoes those words of Lord King:
'The challenge is if we want European levels of welfare payments and public spending, you cannot finance that with American levels of tax rates, so we may need to confront the need to have significantly higher taxes on the average person.'
As a nation, we need to decide which path we want to go down and what sort of economic model we want to adopt: a European 'social market' model, a US style laissez-faire capitalist model or something in between.
Once that's decided, we need the political will, the discipline and the willingness to make sacrifices that would be necessary to stick to the chosen path.
Were we able to do that, we could halt the decline and turn things round. But it would take 20 years.
I'm not sure that the political will yet exists. I agree wholeheartedly with your last paragraph and particularly its final phrase: Labour don't really have the desire to drive proper change. That's not a criticism of the Government. They (or any future government we may end up with) has a monumental task ahead of them.

I somewhat disagree. The point I was making in the original post was that the government needs to drive long-term change of a structural nature, and this can sometimes (depending on the specific policies) require changes to the tax-spend mix.
But I don't think shifting to a US style system with low tax & spend, or shifting to a European system with higher tax & spend, is necessarily pro-growth for the UK. What matters is which taxes and areas of spending you change and by how much - and is this politically feasible. This is why the lack of room to manoeuvre for Reeves on conventional demand-side policy, makes other forms of policymaking (i.e. supply-side/de-regulation) that much more important in this parliament. So I disagree with the idea that we need to pick whether to adopt the US/European model.
Moreover they're very different economies to ours so there's little reason to suggest their models would be any more appropriate for our specific economy.

That sounds a little like my 'something in between'.
I did not mean to suggest that we should adopt any existing model, rather that we should decide which end of the spectrum we lean towards: lower taxes or improved public service provision.
I completely agree that, 'What matters is which taxes and areas of spending you change and by how much.'
I'm not sure how politically feasible it is to reach a reasonable degree of consensus on that - but it will certainly take some doing in the current political climate. One only needs to look across the water to France to see what happens when a nation's sense of direction becomes totally fractured.
Your final paragraph is absolutely true. We need to devise a model that works for us.

PRSOM
Brexit was the worst thing that could have happened. We are, once again, the sick man of Europe.

Either in terms of livelihood, domestic politics or global standing. I have the impression that our country has been stuck in a state of stagnation. What do you think?