Ian, you seem to Share a comprehension problem with your love child Dave.

I don't blame governments, I blame the global capitalist system.
Governments are elected to do the bidding of that system, we saw how they banded together(Liberal, Tory and Labour to rob the poor when the greedy bastards overreached themselves.
"we are all in it together" was the cry, but the crime was committed by the ultra rich.

The people have come to believe that everyone can succeed, just as they believe that they will win the lottery sometime.

People who study capitalist economics(robbery without violence), understand that for capitalism to work successfully, the masses must not be allowed to succeed. When the wealth gap narrows, capitalism is in decline, there is no longer a strong enough monetary incentive to promote growth, the poor are becoming too expensive to sustain, time to up sticks for India or China, where the rich can invest their money in a bit of serious exploitation.
Your few heaps of sticks and stone will be very small beer.

We need another incentive beyond money, which is transient.
National pride, to make our country a good place to live for all her citizens.....start tackling the real inequalities in this society, even if it means lower living standards for the drones.
We need to invest, not as absentee landlords, but invest in our young folk, generations lost because of short term political thinking

"The way is clear!!"