• imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    it was in recession earlier in the year too. not like there’s been any real growth of the kind that actually helps normal people anyway, just total stagnation since 2008, the “recovery” was made up. thankfully i don’t live in perfidious Britain but cries in western europe anyway doggirl-gloom

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      Exactly, they’ve just been kicking the can down the road this whole time and pretending that everything is fine. Looks like they’ve finally run out of games they can play and the economic disaster is becoming impossible to hide.