In general, it’s not a great article because it doesn’t excitation much at all, just that Poland grew. Btw the comparison with other EU countries in the graph is also interesting. Overall, a stagnation, with Poland a significant outlier
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
It was like trying to fix a leaky tap by ripping the sink off the wall and then being surprised by the fact that not only has it not fixed the problem but has now created several more problems as well and the whole mess is now so much harder to fix.
The UK destroyed a lot of wealth (at least for the middle class and below) through Brexit for starters.
Brexit being weirdly absent from the article. Funny that.
It was obviously all because of woke and the transgenders.
Do not forget immigrants. /s
Especially all those poor Polish people who come to the UK for a better life!
In general, it’s not a great article because it doesn’t excitation much at all, just that Poland grew. Btw the comparison with other EU countries in the graph is also interesting. Overall, a stagnation, with Poland a significant outlier
Which does not mean that it was not one of the reasons.
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
Many countries did austerity in 2010 and yet some came out better off while UK in particular did not.
Don’t forget austerity is still happening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme
Brexit was neither the cause of, or the solution to, UKs problems. It just made everything worse.
It was like trying to fix a leaky tap by ripping the sink off the wall and then being surprised by the fact that not only has it not fixed the problem but has now created several more problems as well and the whole mess is now so much harder to fix.
And it was sold like that. People were expected to not believe the obvious, and they didn’t!
Amazing.