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Sherelle Jacobs
Opinion Britain’s ruling class retreats to fantasy island fallacy despite onslaught of crises
As Britain faces a ‘summer of discontent’, our ruling class has retreated to fantasy island. The country faces an onslaught of crises – from the worst inflation in 40 years to travel chaos and the biggest rail strikes in decades. A new era of epic decline beckons, as Britain’s systemic weaknesses finally come to a head, from its sclerotic productivity growth to its atrophied dynamism. Britain’s politics is imploding, too: as the Government continues to botch Brexit, the country is without a safety valve to channel frustration into optimism. Once a populist pinup, Boris Johnson is now reviled as the epitome of elite complacency.
