It was a series of bad mistakes by multiple people which got us into this mess: - Labour choosing Corbyn - The referendum Leave vote - Theresa May's GE disaster (what were voters thinking???) - The i… (View Post)

Complacency, obviously. People took for granted what they had, which is why there has been so much surprise at the effects of Brexit. (View Post)

I agree that 2016-2017 was OKish, but after that it's all to do with Brexit. It was Brexit which gave us the 2017-2019 shambles. It was Brexit which gave us the disaster of Boris - the worst PM in li… (View Post)

No, I don't think so. Of course mistakes were made pre 2016, some of them serious, but name a major country which hasn't made serious policy or governance mistakes. Overall, from Thatcher onwards we … (View Post)

Looks like he's too young to remember pre-Thatcher Britain, when we were also poor and badly-governed compared with our peers (the 'sick man of Europe'). The decline since 2016 does feel a bit like t… (View Post)