Really? In forty years the only two competing forces in the UK economy have been inflation and interest rates, the latter being an increasingly crude tool to control the former.
Nothing like enough regard has been given to structural and geographical imbalances like a desperate reliance on financial services, a grotesque housing market and the overheated South East of England.
Not to mention corruption in the City of London, rampant tax avoidance, soaring inflation in executive pay and dividends, excessive corporate profiteering coupled with chronic underinvestment both in people and infrastructure, never mind industrial-scale Governmental waste with the MoD the star performer, and pork-barrel Covid feasts for the Friends Of The Tories.
But aye, you are bang on, the school cleaners are to blame.