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The UK we never expected
8/10/20 10:33![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abomvubuso"This is going to be a fantastic year for Britain", Boris Johnson infamously boasted about 2020. Boy, was he wrong.
After last winter's exhausting election battle, and months of parliamentary chaos, after years in the shadow of Brexit, lots of folks were starting to say prayers about the country's future. And yet, Britain is now seeing one of the highest Covid mortality rates in the world, and more than 1 million jobs have just vanished.
It's no surprise that the optimists are few, and far apart these days. What's worse, the Tory government doesn't seem bound by any sense of rule and responsibility.
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After last winter's exhausting election battle, and months of parliamentary chaos, after years in the shadow of Brexit, lots of folks were starting to say prayers about the country's future. And yet, Britain is now seeing one of the highest Covid mortality rates in the world, and more than 1 million jobs have just vanished.
It's no surprise that the optimists are few, and far apart these days. What's worse, the Tory government doesn't seem bound by any sense of rule and responsibility.
( Read more... )
