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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by graemep on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:22AM (#42767125)
The UK did not choose austerity:

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06...

but still has worse growth than the US.

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by jahnu on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:47AM (#42767693)
They most certainly did

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

What they didn't do, unlike PIGS, was also tough reforms which are paying back now

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/flying-piigs-nations-s...

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by HPsquared on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:00AM (#42769396)
The Conservative party used austerity rhetoric as a way to win votes, but they did not cut spending other than reversion to the mean after the high spending around 2008.

See here for international comparison of government spending as % of GDP (the second figure showing trends over time), UK is not an outlier:

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/GBR/CZE/...

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by nd on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:42AM (#42767650)
The UK government did, for all intents and purposes, choose austerity after the pandemic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_au....
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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by robbie-c on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:36AM (#42767605)
Can you explain how your link supports your argument?

The conservatives ran austerity-based policies for the last 14 years. Is your argument that they did not have a choice?

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by UK-AL on Monday January 20, 2025 @07:57AM (#42768234)
Have you seen the national debt under the conservatives? It's massively increased.
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