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I think anyone with a passing understanding of the UK could see the answer coming a mile off. This is the inevitable result of the brutal austerity programme p
by specproc 4y ago
I think anyone with a passing understanding of the UK could see the answer coming a mile off.
This is the inevitable result of the brutal austerity programme pushed through by the Cameron government. It's hard for me to see Brexit outside of this context as well.
What riles me about this piece is that the Economist was championing these exact policies at the time.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2010/10/21/ouch https://www.economist.com/leaders/2010/10/21/ouch
Everyone these days loves to hate on the spivs and chancers that emerged from this mess, but it's people like Cameron and Osborne who got us here.