“Reeves was … bigging up the wonders of the capital’s financial services sector and suggesting that it should be once again set free to lead the charge towards growth. But that model was disgraced in 2008, and it led us to where we are…”

Quite.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/britain-austerity-labour-uk-economy-councils
#Austerity #Labour #LearnedNothing

The streetlights going out over Britain tell a brutal story: austerity isn’t over – it’s getting worse

Labour won’t achieve its aim of reviving the UK’s economy until it takes the plight of cash-starved councils more seriously, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian

🤯MIND-BOGGLING - people "brave crowds" just "to watch a ball drop"... ANY year. The "experience" is widely panned.

🤬INFURIATING - THIS year in the middle of a SURGE of a new and "most contagious ever" variant which is FILLING hospitals #XBB

😧INSANE - no COVID restrictions?😷💉

🚨CRIMINAL the media is not warning people to stay away. They are cheerleading. @msnbc 👀

#NewYearsEve2022 #HappyNewYear #SuperSpreaderSociopaths #covid #idiots #covidiots #learnedNothing #learnedhelplessness

[in case its relevant: i still dont understand what irony means or how it works ]
#learnedNothing