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.
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
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.
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
Don’t forget austerity is still happening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme
Many countries did austerity in 2010 and yet some came out better off while UK in particular did not.
Brexit was neither the cause of, or the solution to, UKs problems. It just made everything worse.
France doing it’s best to not surpass the UK too 😑