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Originally Posted by jfman
I got thinking about that final point during the afternoon. I do wonder if this was by design to prevent ‘brain drain’ just as East Germany put up the Berlin Wall. If the current trajectory of having among the largest economic decline and fall in living standards among developed nations - and a seeming absence of political will to reverse the decline - it’s not difficult to see how some might seek to move to a country with genuine pride in itself, a developed culture and identity, and importantly without a neurotic hangover from who it used to be.
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I think you are crediting those behind this debacle with more intelligence that they deserve. The really interesting part are the demographics in play: no one born in this millennium voted for the current situation we're in but they are the generation who are/will be bearing the full cost of this tragedy. The ongoing demise of the generation who sold their birth right and the rise of Gen Z will define the choices of the next decade. One thing is for certain is that the Tory Party in its current incarnation is extinct. Liz Truss is the last of her evolutionary line: a true dinosaur in political terms.
One can only hope that the next choices we make as country start to remodel the "trickle up" economy and engenders a "we" mentality rather than a "me" mentality.