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Why Brexit Britain Is Isolated, Vulnerable and Running on Fumes
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 04, 2021 08:59am |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | Joe Mayes , Lizzy Burden , and Isis Almeida |
| News Date | Monday, October 4, 2021 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Lines of cars snake from gasoline stations. Fights break out among angry motorists trying to get fuel. Grocery staples are out of stock on store shelves. A charity warns that doubling heating bills will force a million households to rely on extra blankets to stay warm.
This was supposed to be the year the U.K. broke free of the European Union and forged ahead as a buccaneering free trader, delivering the benefits of a new, confident “Global Britain” to workers and companies at home. Instead, that picture of Brexit utopia is looking more like a dystopia.
As Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party gathers at its annual conference this week, the promise of self-determination has given way to a foreboding sense of economic isolation. |
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