So far, the Johnson administration has been hiding behind the destruction of Covid to divert attention from the consequences of the epidemic. Brexit.
But it won’t be long. The chaos caused by removing the British team economy from the single market and leaving Northern Ireland inside is already obvious. It is also very clear that the disruption of trade in Northern Ireland cannot be attributed to the damage caused by Covid, nor can it be confused with the damage caused by Covid.
So far, the British economy has been suffering from what one might call Brexdemic. Much of the sharp decline in output in 2020 can be attributed to Covid’s blow, as is the case in many other economies. But we have already suffered the additional damage caused by Brexit. This is a country that seems to be addicted to self-harm.
Day after day, we saw stupid evidence.Good works closely integrated into half a century Europe Withdrawing. The inconvenience and confusion make previous complaints about “Brussels bureaucracy” look like a sick joke.
Ironically, as my colleague Phillip Inman Pointed out in this space last weekThe so-called red wall seats in the Northeast have been hit particularly hard. How long will it take for so many Brexitists to realize the fact that they already “own” it?
The general dawn of Brexit reality is good news for Kil Starmer, who has been too anxious to please Brexit Labor voters instead of gently correcting them.In this case, Labor’s new shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves recently used Interview Financial Times It is clearly stated that the Labor Party hopes to cooperate with Brussels to fill the “blank” in the Johnson Brexit agreement.
Reeves cleverly used English understatement, saying that Johnson had a “blind spot” in his relationship with the European Union. Alas, I am worried that this is not so much open hostility as it is a blind spot. His deputy is his so-called negotiator David Frost, who has not learned much diplomacy in his less successful career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Knowledge. Given that the service industry accounts for 80% of the economy and almost no “agreements” are signed, Reeves’s use of the term “gap” instead of “gap” makes sense.
But she is not yet the prime minister. Rishi Sunak is, so far, his reputation has benefited from the contribution of the vacation plan and the temporary promotion of universal credit payments. However, the National Institute of Economics and Social Research estimates that the end of the vacation program will leave another 150,000 people unemployed, and Sunak has consistently refused calls to extend support for universal credit.
Whether you call what is happening now “recovery” or just reopen those parts of the economy that have not yet declined, the outlook is fraught with risks.The International Monetary Fund and so many independent observers Urge caution Regarding any tightening of monetary and fiscal policies.
In the quarrel, many people speculated that there was a presumed disagreement between the allegedly profligate prime minister and the low-tax/low-spending prime minister who wanted to suppress.But even William Haig, the former stout Margaret Thatcher Now think Big government and state intervention is not just a temporary stopgap that Covid needs. The economic policies of the United States and the Eurozone are blowing up a wind of change, and the United Kingdom should pay attention to this.
However, “Yond Cassius looks thin and hungry”. It is widely believed that Sunak is “in action”, ready to welcome the possibility that Teflon will eventually wear down his next-door neighbor in Downing Street-recent early signs of this possibility.
In my opinion, Sunak has thrown himself into the abyss of sin because of his support for Brexit and his shameful role in cutting overseas aid. If Johnson is eventually eliminated, Johnson’s opponents should not hold out too much hope.
This is not just Brexit. This is the consequence of Brexit: Respect for the rule of law is eroded, and standards are generally corrupt and coarsened. Annette Dittert, head of the German Public Broadcasting Corporation’s London branch, recently captured this in an article. New statesman Right The politics of liesAs she pointed out, it was Dominic Cummings and Johnson who “used the post-truth era in the UK first, thus undermining the foundation on which the minister can still be held accountable.”
As one of my favorite Roman poets, Juvenal, said: Who looks at custodes? (Who will protect the guards?) Let the opposition leader Kyle Starmer come forward. If there is a Labour Party leader who is fully qualified to start fighting back against the standards of this government, it is the former Attorney General.
