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The UK did not choose austerity: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06167/ https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06.

• robbie-c 2y ago
  Can you explain how your link supports your argument? The conservatives ran austerity-based policies for the last 14 years. Is your argument that they did not have a choice?
  • UK-AL 2y ago
    Have you seen the national debt under the conservatives? It's massively increased.
• nd 2y ago
  The UK government did, for all intents and purposes, choose austerity after the pandemic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_au....
• jahnu 2y ago
  They most certainly did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_aust... What they didn't do, unlike PIGS, was also tough reforms which are paying back now https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/flying-piigs-nations-stir-rethink-europes-core-2024-08-12/ https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/flying-piigs-nations-s...
  • HPsquared 2y ago
    The Conservative party used austerity rhetoric as a way to win votes, but they did not cut spending other than reversion to the mean after the high spending around 2008. See here for international comparison of government spending as % of GDP (the second figure showing trends over time), UK is not an outlier: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/GBR/CZE/DEU/FRA https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/GBR/CZE/...