⟳ Репост от David Flood
It’s worth noting: the anti-austerity movement arose organically from the public at a time when public organisations and NGOs were blaring klaxons about the calamitous damage austerity was doing. And so the lads got together and stomped those insolent motherfuckers into the earth, where they belong.
flyingrodentWhy did Britain spend the decades after the financial crisis repeatedly stabbing itself for no good reason, with both hands? Because all the right sort of chaps decided that was better and more in their interest than e.g. admitting the Thatcherite consensus was fucked and needed to be replaced.