The Great British Rebuild

Britain canbe rebuilt.

Britain's decline can feel baked in: structural, permanent, nobody's job to fix. It is none of those things. These tools show you the honest numbers, why the country changed, and the policies that would reverse it. Nobody here is the villain. Policy made this, and policy can be rebuilt.

Decline was built by policy. So it can be reversed by policy.

The method · Every tool does the same three things
1

See it

The honest number, made personal. Your birth year, your region, your salary, sourced and straight.

2

Understand it

Why it changed, traced to policy decisions since 1997, by both main parties.

3

Fix it

Two or three concrete policy options, each with its trade-off stated. You leave with something to back, and a card to send.

The tools · Start anywhere

Two tools, working.

Spend it yourself£100 Question

Where the Treasury puts every £100

Before you choose your own split, this is the real one. Each coin is £1 of public spending on services in 2025-26.

That is £9 on debt interest: more than the whole defence budget, and it buys nothing.

HM Treasury, PESA 2026, Tables 4.2 and 5.2, 2025-26 outturn. Services basis, £1,227.6bn.Spend your £100 →
FlagshipBirth-Year Deal

The deal you were born into

Born in
1980
Generation XAge 46 in 2026
Fee cap when you turned 18 · 1998
£1,000
A means-tested fee of up to £1,000 arrived in 1998.
Starting now · 2026/27
£9,790
The undergraduate fee cap in England.
House of Commons Library, CBP-10155 · DfE fee limits 2026. England; the year you turned 18.See your whole deal →
Every other tool, as a house postcard

Nine more ways in.

One argument that holds all three generations together.

Most of this debate sets young against old. The Rebuild refuses that. The problem is policy design, so nobody has to be the villain.

Younger readers

The system is stacked, and the reason is policy. Your grandparents did not stack it.

Older readers

Vindicated, and blamed for nothing. You inherited a different settlement, and it changed by design.

Gen X and millennials

The forgotten middle, who got the worst of both worlds with none of the recognition.

See your birth-year deal
Every figure is sourced on its own pageFigures checked 27 Sep 2026Policy, not people
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