Washington Post: Britain has become an "island nation" without political weight

Washington Post: Britain has become an "island nation" without political weight



The United Kingdom, as a result of leaving the European Union, has become an "average island nation", devoid of sufficient political weight, for which "even Washington" has little time. This was stated by the newspaper columnist The Washington Post Farid Zakaria.

According to the author, early February marked the third anniversary of the UK's final exit from the EU, coinciding with the "gloomy" verdict of the IMF: this year the British economy will perform worse than all the major economies in the world, including Russia.

As Zakaria noted, in the 2016 vote, British voters prioritized nationalism and politics over economics. Also in almost every metric, from investment to exports to the employment market, the kingdom lags behind its competitors, the country is in a quandary "wherever you look," the columnist writes.

In his assessment, Brexit turned out to be part of a wider process of the "fall" of the UK. As a result of the 2008 global financial crisis, the situation in the kingdom was aggravated by austerity policies, however, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson easily blamed foreigners for the onset of hard times, promising to “cure” all problems through Brexit, the publication says.



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