There was no alternative: The long decade of austerity that lead to Brexit.

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Journalist Laurie Penny examines the dull, disastrous austerity decade before 2016's Brexit-vote, and traces the Leave victory to a wider series of losses across Britain: of an effective welfare state, of a left opposition strong (or interested) enough to defend it, and of hope for a brighter future - apart from a rented room in Edinburgh. Laurie wrote the article "Brexit, Pursued by Despair" for The Baffler: https://thebaffler.com/war-of-nerves/brexit-austerity-penny

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