“Brexit Britain” is fast becoming a dystopia, not a utopia.10 Oct 2021 15:42
Vulnerable, isolated, running on fumes, and facing the worst winter since the 1970s. That's one US media organisation's depiction of “Brexit Britain”, which it concludes is fast becoming a dystopia, not a utopia.
You can see why they might take that view. Even business leaders, incensed that the government is blaming the whole sorry mess on the private sector’s “addiction” to cheap labour and lack of preparedness for the current supply challenges, are predicting that the problems causing empty fuel pumps and empty shelves will last two years and not the two months suggested by chancellor Rishi Sunak. And speaking of the 1970s, stagflation – that lethal and hard to cure combination of low-to-no growth and inflation – has been creeping back into economists’ vocabulary as a plausible risk triggered by the growing energy crisis.