{"id":63332,"date":"2022-08-20T08:48:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63332"},"modified":"2022-08-20T08:48:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T13:48:02","slug":"winter-is-coming-for-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63332","title":{"rendered":"Winter is Coming for the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-2\">\n<header class=\"entry-header ct-container-narrow\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\" title=\"Winter is Coming for the UK\"><a href=\"https:\/\/morningporridge.com\/blog\/blains-morning-porridge\/winter-is-coming-for-the-uk\/\">Winter is Coming for the UK<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"page-description ct-hidden-sm\"><strong>The outlook for the UK looks increasingly grim. There are few reasons to hope a new government can reverse the mounting consumer fears, stagflation and the growing sense of decline.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ct-container\" data-sidebar=\"right\" data-vertical-spacing=\"top:bottom\">\n<article id=\"post-10106\" class=\"post-10106 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-blains-morning-porridge category-stagflation category-uk tag-consumers tag-liz-truss tag-recession tag-stagflation tag-uk-politics\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>\u201cTell them the North remembers. Tell them Winter is Coming.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This morning.\u00a0<em>The outlook for the UK looks increasingly grim. There are few reasons to hope a new government can reverse the mounting consumer fears, stagflation and the growing sense of decline.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was cold, wet and grey. The sudden end of the glorious summer highlights how dark and bleak the mood in the UK has become. UK Consumer confidence has collapsed to levels not seen since the 1970s. London has ground to a halt with tube and rail strikes. Its not just the cost of living crisis \u2013 which, to be blunt, has only just begun and will get much, much worse as winter deepens\u2013 but folk are losing confidence in the broken mechanics of the economy, the absence of leadership and a growing sense things won\u2019t get any better.<\/p>\n<p>The country feels like its sinking into a treacle of energy-sucking, suffocating despond. Everything in Britain feels broken: the NHS is too crowded to treat patients, excess death rates show untreated cancers, heart-disease and stokes from lockdown now far outnumber Covid deaths, the police are so overloaded they have stopped even bothering to investigate crime, while airports are blocked, trains don\u2019t work, and it really doesn\u2019t matter because you can\u2019t get a passport or driving licence renewed. As the rains come down, we\u2019re under threat of dire authoritarian punishment if we dare use a garden hose \u2013 although to be fair, who is going to arrest you?<\/p>\n<p>Thank heaven we\u2019re about to get a new prime minister \u2013\u00a0<strong><em>SARCASM ALERT<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter is Coming for the UK The outlook for the UK looks increasingly grim. There are few reasons to hope a new government can reverse the mounting consumer fears, stagflation and the growing sense of decline. \u201cTell them the North remembers. Tell them Winter is Coming.\u201d This morning.\u00a0The outlook for the UK looks increasingly grim. 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