Business & Economics — United Kingdom
How the UK is Failing Back Into A Developing Country
Why the UK is sliding back to the days of Victorian poverty
These days the UK is portraying itself more like a tragicomedy written by Douglas Adams or Lewis Carroll. However, while the UK argues over the deck chairs as it sinks from its self-inflicted wounds, the results are going to be more like something out of a Dickens novel.
From local pubs to the NHS and courtrooms, the UK is at breaking point. It’s bad enough when local media bangs on about local failures. However, when foreign media uses an entire country as an example of what not to do, it should definitely be a serious signal to do something. Yet the UK government continues its line of denial and insists “everything is in hand”.
The real problem is the UK doesn’t know how to efficiently govern its infrastructure. At its heart, the UK is a socialist economy (nothing wrong with that), but every day when it dresses for work, it dresses in capitalist clothing. It is in many ways a disjointed governmental structure. Capitalist in Whitehall, and Socialist at the county council level. While policies fail decade after decade, politicians fail to do anything more than write strongly worded letters addressing current situations…
