Britain’s Imploding… And Nobody Cares

To look at Britain’s economy today is to shudder. Things are going <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjbztWslMj_AhW3TaQEHRJRB_AQxfQBKAB6BAgWEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fbusiness-12196322&usg=AOvVaw3NArbSykgU_G8DhwvsAKQU" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">badly</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjbztWslMj_AhW3TaQEHRJRB_AQxfQBKAB6BAgREAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fforeignpolicy.com%2F2022%2F09%2F28%2Fliz-truss-britain-economy-markets%2F&usg=AOvVaw1F_JyPhd0lHimYIP_JOupE" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">badly</a> <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi95urClMj_AhWNVqQEHfVtBbQ4ChDF9AEoAHoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fbusiness-63704841&usg=AOvVaw27lNB5_hovblT57mzs7MEZ" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">wrong</a> — <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjaocfNlMj_AhUvTaQEHZq1BhcQxfQBKAB6BAgbEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Fuk%2Fuk-still-faces-record-hit-living-standards-obr-predicts-2023-03-15%2F&usg=AOvVaw1sxeFnIXQ_X3DG8FBknZUY" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">on an astonishing scale</a>. Brits will tell you that “nothing works,” and that’s true — but the truer problem is deeper than that still. Britain is now in an economic doom loop. And what’s worse is that — while it’s elementary economics — nobody much in power seems to a) recognize it b) understand it c) have a plan to stop it. And without any of those? Britain now faces, almost surely, perhaps the bleakest decade in its modern history. One of its bleakest decades for a very, very long time. That’s not just a problem for Britain — it’s a warning to the world. (Now, when I say “nobody cares,” I don’t mean you, or the person down the street. But I do mean political figures, parties, the intelligentsia which essentially runs a country, its systems and institutions. I mean nobody with…power. They all seem to be happily pretending things are fine. But, emphatically, in Britain? Nothing is fine.) <a href="https://eand.co/britains-imploding-and-nobody-cares-843a2188977a">Read More</a>