Really? Check out the economic facts about debt and unemployment. Tells a quite different story alas. The joys of living under socialism's effective bankruptcy.
Yes, really. So the economic acceptance turnaround of the Portuguese economy is somehow a myth? Unemployment there has halved since the change in policy and they're forecasting a budget deficit lower than the UK for 2019. Not bad for limp wristed liberals
Austerity is sometimes as much about political manoeuvring as it is about economics.