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As a result of leaving the European Union, the United Kingdom has become an “average island nation” deprived of sufficient political weight, for which even Washington has little time. This was stated by The columnist of The Washington Post Farid Zakaria.
According to the author, at the beginning of February, the third anniversary of the UK’s final exit from the EU was celebrated, coinciding with the “gloomy” verdict of the IMF: this year the British economy will show worse indicators than all major economies in the world, including Russia.
As Zakaria noted, during the 2016 vote, British voters put nationalism and politics above the economy. Also, in almost all indicators, from investments to exports and the employment market, the kingdom lags behind its competitors, the country is in a difficult situation, “wherever you look,” the observer writes.
According to his assessment, Brexit turned out to be part of a broader process of the “fall” of the UK. As a result of the global financial crisis of 2008, the situation in the kingdom was aggravated by the policy of austerity, at the same time, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson easily blamed foreigners for the onset of hard times, promising to “cure” all problems through Brexit, the publication clarifies.