“One more war, bro.”

“One more lane, bro.”

“One more right-wing government, bro.”

And tax revenue is already on course to rise to 38% of GDP, a historical high for Britain, even if it is still lowish by European standards.

Burying the lede here.

As usual, death to The Economist.

Just make cuts to pensions bro it’ll totally work this time bro because we’ll lower taxes again and make retirees rejoin the workforce bro I swear it’s gonna happen for real this time bro bro bro

Brief summary of the article. I’m not an economist or anything, but instead of austerity, have they tried not leaving the EU or not relying on a toy company to singlehandedly uphold their entire economy?

I can’t deal with The Economist’s smug overconfident style right now gonna have to click on this later

they don’t use bylines because everything in it is too fucking embarrassing to claim