doubled VAT to reduce inflation but in doing so destroyed domestic manufacturing and set the stage for mass home repossessions and rises in costs of social housing creating both the economic issues Britain has over diminishing exports and a housing crisis
created a tax to vote, that disproportionately targeted poorer people, creating the worst riots in history
introduced privatization to the health care system which is still being felt today
section 28: it was illegal to mention homosexuality
reclassified IRA prisoners of war as criminals so they no longer were treated as captives in war but as offenders of the law, as a result 10 of them voluntarily starved themselves to death, causing their leader to get elected to parliament from his prison cell, and invoked an intervention by the Pope and the EU human rights commission, and further exacerbated the troubles
destruction of many traditional ways of life in areas of the country for laborers and trade unionists

[–] Zaddy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So this is the game plan that the government is using in the United States. At least I know what's to come, kinda hoping they were gonna be more original in the downfall of the US.

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