• comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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    28 days ago

    The UK destroyed a lot of wealth (at least for the middle class and below) through Brexit for starters.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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      28 days ago

      Yeah I was just thinking it must be Brexit. Poland probably didn’t grow that fast, but UK decided to shoot itself in the foot to level the playing field.

      Looking at the GDP graph though, it looks like UK has been lagging behind since 2010. Can’t really blame Brexit for all that.

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        28 days ago

        It’s right wing politics

        2010 the Tories came into power and tried to austerity their way out of the financial crisis, which even at the time was criticised as being the wrong plan

        2016 we get Brexit

        2020 we had the COVID mismanagement that kept us in lockdown much longer that we’d have otherwise needed to be

        2022 we get trussonomics

        2024 was Rishi trying to win votes with uncosted policies

        2025 our traditionally centre left party is trying to court the voters going to the far right. So we are getting more austerity

      • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOP
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        28 days ago

        Brexit was neither the cause of, or the solution to, UKs problems. It just made everything worse.