From strikes to civil disobedience, people are taking matters into their own hands, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
The country feels ungoverned and unstable. From strikes to civil disobedience, people are taking matters into their own handsremember during the darkest period of the pandemic that there was a feeling the British government had truly abandoned people to their fate.
The impression of precariousness is not just a feeling. It’s a fact. In a research note earlier this month, the head of macro analysis at Saxo, a Danish bank, said that the UK was looking more and more like that dreaded benchmark for a western democracy, “an emerging market country”. “Whathas not done by itself,” he said, “Brexit coupled with Covid and high inflation have succeeded in doing. The UK economy is crushed.
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