Poland is becoming a great place because it has strict governance and a clear economic strategy built upon modernisation.
We're unfortunately drowning in the burden of our own past. I think I said it on here ages ago, the UK has 1940s infrastructure and a 1980s workforce that is trying to make ends meet in a 2025 globalised, rapidly changing and modernising economic system. We and (much of Europe actually) still hasn't even recovered from the crash in 2008 and everyone on here will be dead by the time we recover from COVID, and that's if we recover.
Nothing sums this up more than the north. We were still down the pits and working in manufacturing only 30 years ago and that has all but vanished, replaced by cheaper and better stuff from abroad. Nothing replaced that, people now just live by whatever scraps they can find and even now 15-20 years later there is no government strategy to fix this.
The country is unfortunately run by Oxford economists and morons who see the economy as nothing more than a spreadsheet. They're the kind of people who see 0.05351% GDP growth or a 1% increase in the FTSE as some victory that the skint population should be jumping around in the streets to celebrate.
The problem is they're not celebrating and now they've learnt that they seemingly need to vote for something different regardless of what that means. They did it with Brexit and they'll probably do it again by voting for Reform in a few years.
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