Half of Europe had austerity measures in place, I'm sure even someone with your limited intellect might recognise that half of Europe is outside the control of the Tory party.
What all the countries did have in common was having signed the Maastricht Treaty and by default agreeing to cap govt spending if gross debt exceeds 60% of GDP and deficit exceeds 3% of gdp
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/gove...nmentdebtanddeficitforeurostatmaast/march2019
Of course your chum Notch claimed no such clauses were ever in the Maastricht treaty, when I quoted the page and paragraph numbers he backtracked and said these clauses only applied to countries who were in the 'euro', when I pointed out that the Maastricht treaty and said clauses were ratified long before the introduction of the euro, he adopted yours and Galahads approach, fingers in the ears shouting na na na na can't hear you.