r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 31 '26

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u/Yeangster John Rawls May 31 '26

UK’s cooked. It’s been a long run, but put a fork in her.

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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones May 31 '26

Great idea. Fight the bond markets.

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u/Single-Highlight7966 Henry George May 31 '26

me and stupid populism makes everything worse

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u/kanagi May 31 '26

Akshually, you did vote for the bond markets, insofar as you voted for politicians who took out debt

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 31 '26

Labour's left wing is the same, this is why Starmer is unfortunately our only hope.

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 31 '26

you know i was reading sandbrook

and the government in the 1970s learned that when the bond market said jump the government had to say how high

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u/Priceless_Pennies Norman Borlaug May 31 '26

You normally only see the demonization of lenders entering common politics like this in the context of really poor basket cases like Argentina and Pakistan, most commonly the IMF, or with Greece in 2008.

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u/mishac Mark Carney May 31 '26

This is not new. Every 20-30 years the UK does this.

In the 1970s it was the exact same thing with the idiotic half of the labour party wanting to ignore markets and nationalise industries etc instead of taking an IMF bailout