Endless queues at gas stations as in Lebanon, supermarket shelves as empty as in the Soviet bloc in the midst of the Cold War.
This is not the image of "Global Britain" that the Brexiters hoped to give.
Boris Johnson's government - and much of the media - is writhing not to link the economic problems that are piling up with the vote five years ago to leave the European Union, which has become a taboo subject.
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Their attempts to make people believe that the rest of Europe would suffer the same setbacks no longer fool many people.
For the majority of Britons, the reality of Brexit is starting to bite.
It was not long before those who advocated
"regaining control"
of their borders appealed to these much maligned foreigners to come and rescue them.
The 10,500 three-month visas offered to truck drivers and chicken farm workers look like a bottle launched in the English Channel.
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