[ZeroGravitas]

Financial Times called it out recently too, in surprisingly clear terms:

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1606223922474627073

> Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events

> It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks

[captaincaveman]

Assuming this is true, wasn't it the bailing out of the banks a major factor in the need for austerity?