Independence always comes at a high price. The British have been experiencing this for a year since Brexit became reality. At the time of casting off, Boris Johnson had made them dangle a radiant horizon: a "Global Britain" sailing at the speed of a "Singapore-on-Thames", a State made agile by a bureaucratic slimming cure, a economy of high wages and high productivity boosted by a strict control of immigration, international trade agreements not to know what to do with… For the moment, His Majesty's subjects have only harvested anemic growth , labor and supply shortages, customs complications penalizing trade,strained neighborly relations… and we are still waiting for the red carpet of free trade to be rolled out by the United States and the democracies of Asia.
Of course, the Covid has complicated the equation of the new start made by London.
The virus even had a good back in allowing the government ...
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