Writing at UnHerd, Mary Harrington calls this a “winter of Great Britain’s discontent.” Her point is that one unpopular U.K. government is following another without anything getting better.
She recollects the Margaret Thatcher years and notes Maggie had the courage needed to cut Gordian knots and create temporary pain to improve the quagmire in which she found her nation. Someone with similar vision and courage being obviously needed now, although Harrington sees no reasonable candidates on the horizon. I particularly like this suggestion.
We might even look to the most radical policy shift of all: leaving behind the fantasy of “global Britain” for some form of re-unification with Greater Britain, which is to say the historic Anglosphere.
One supposes by “Anglosphere” she refers to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and to some extent the U.S.; places where English is most people’s native tongue and the culture is largely first world. Ireland should be included, but wouldn’t join out of post-colonial pique - their loss.
Not that most Americans have paid attention but illegal immigration is at least as much a problem for the U.K. as it is here. They have “boat people” coming across the Channel on nearly anything that will float.
