• Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The sick man of Europe once again.

    “Sick man of Europe” is a label given to a nation located in Europe experiencing economic difficulties, social unrest or impoverishment. … Throughout the 1960s to the 1980s, the term was also most notably used for the United Kingdom when it lost its superpower status as the Empire crumbled and its home islands experienced significant deindustrialization, coupled with high inflation and industrial unrest – such as the Winter of Discontent – including having to seek loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Since the mid-2010s and into the 2020s, the term being used for Britain began to see a resurgence after Brexit, a cost-of-living crisis and industrial disputes and strikes becoming more commonplace.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe

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      I hope the conservatives are proud. A lot of enemies of Britain tried to destroy it and didn’t even get half as far as the conservatives got.