• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    22 hours 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