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it's actually been in recession for basically 16 years now but the GDP numbers are half-faked and half-misrepresentative anyway
like the only economic success stories that happen in this country anymore are American chain restaurants opening new branches (and then closing them down after 5 years bc their food is bad and too expensive) and buy-to-let landlords
in any case, this state can't really go on for much longer like this, it's too neoliberalised to invest in a way that would stimulate economic growth and increase the tax base, and without doing that it'll just get further and further into debt which will eventually result in some kind of collapse in its ability to fund itself (probably going to the IMF, resulting in a genuinely catastrophic political crisis that fucks the whole thing)
america, this is what awaits you too
At this point I'm pretty sure that even if the government wanted to actually deficit spend enough to begin fixing everything, there has been such a rot and attrition over the years that it would take several decades just to fix all the shit that is broken.
yeah Kemi Badenoch didn't mean it in the right way when she said jail 5% of them, but you'd need to go sicko mode on the civil service to start with. nothing moves quickly in this country and the public/private bureaucracy's impotence is a big part of the problem