Europe is now looking at the possibility of “social unrest” should the continent be hit with a cold winter this year, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has now warned.
The IMF bigwig is the latest of many officials to warn that Europe is currently facing a rough winter that could be filled with instability and social unrest should the general public be left in the lurch by energy and economic problems caused by climate policy and the Ukraine war.
In particular, one bigwig tasked with maintaining the integrity of modern German democracy complained that those on the right were getting better at addressing the concerns of everyday citizens, something he apparently believes is a bad thing to happen within a functioning democracy. Meanwhile, the head of one major trade union in the United Kingdom has said that sentiment in the country is now similar to sentiment during the poll tax riots, which occurred in the early 1990s in response to a levy brought in by then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
“I actually think there is a moment where people could rise to doing exactly the same thing again,” Unite trade union head Sharon Graham, emphasising that she had not a “shadow of a doubt” that tensions have gotten as least as bad as they were back then.
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