How Austerity Caused #Brexit - Pacific Standard
▻https://psmag.com/ideas/brexit-how-austerity-and-a-cowardly-ruling-class-brought-down-england
Let’s recap. Cue the music! Dim the lights! Fire up the wobbly screen time-jump effects! The year is 2010 and Britain just had an election. Conservative leader David Cameron, a yogurt-faced old Etonian former public relations man, fails to win the general election but goes into coalition with the smaller Liberal Democrat Party and proceeds to institute a program of economic reforms that nobody voted for, reforms so brutal and devastating that the janky but serviceable state Britain used to have is all but destroyed.