Pak Sahafat – In an article, a German media pointed out the countless challenges that England experienced in 2022 under three conservative British Prime Ministers and will continue.
According to the report of the International group of Pak Sahafat news agency, the German newspaper Tageschau discussed a year full of chaos and challenges for the British in 2022 and wrote: three prime ministers, domestic economic stagnation, hard political turns; The British have had a chaotic year. But even under Rishi Sunak’s relatively rational prime ministership, they are still facing tough times.
When Queen Elizabeth appointed Liz Truss as the new prime minister in her Scottish country estate in early September, she may have thought the worst was over after eight chaotic months as Boris Johnson’s tenure ended.
After the Queen passed away just days later, die-hard royalists must now be relieved that Elizabeth II didn’t have to live to see the end of the year; Because things were going to get worse at an astonishing rate.
The dramatic collapse of the terrace just 31 days after the funeral of the longest-serving monarch in British history set off a series of tragedies big and small. However, the real causes of this go back much further and are rooted in a Conservative Party that has become completely worn out and disoriented as a result of long-term internal feuds.
With Rishi Sunak, the third prime minister in just one year, a much more reasonable person is now at the helm. However, he also has no solution to the current economic and political problems that are piling up after Brexit.
Just one example is enough: since mid-December, the island has experienced the biggest wave of strikes since the 1980s. Rail workers, postmen and even nurses and emergency services workers are protesting against a government that has plunged the country into a recession that is essentially internal.
Sunak has been stuck between several stools since taking the reins in Downing Street at the end of October. After Sunak’s predecessor Liz Truss announced £45bn of tax cuts, mainly for higher earners and without funding, markets fell sharply, leaving Sunac with no choice but to announce a U-turn. He did not have a rank immediately after assuming office.
Instead of tax giveaways, Sunak is now planning a tax hike and an austerity package of more than 55 billion, primarily affecting public services. A policy that is more like David Cameron’s austerity policies and the Conservatives have basically no plan for it.
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Boris Johnson, the last effectively elected Conservative prime minister, came to power in 2019 promising a financial boost, especially for the poor north of England, which Sunak no longer mentions at all. But he has no choice either, the markets have been so volatile since the terrace adventure that Sunak’s scope to fulfill the promises of his predecessors is very limited.
But with this approach, Sunak has several problems at the same time. First, his change in fiscal policy will unnerve the conservative right wing, which is staunchly opposed to higher taxes to shore up the public finances. It undermines Sunak’s precarious position within the party.
On the other hand, there is nothing left on this island that can be reduced. Public service and national health system budgets have been so severely cut for years that any further cuts in the midst of rampant inflation would put them at great risk. The current strikes make this all too clear.
In the continuation of this article, it is stated: The current effort of Sunak to bring the unions to their knees is unlikely to continue if the industrial disputes continue and intensify. So after various sudden changes of direction in the last few weeks, another twist is imminent which is unlikely to boost Sunak politically.
And then there is the issue of Brexit. The Independent Office for Taxation (OBR) recently calculated that leaving the EU is currently costing the UK economy 4% of its GDP, and this trend is rising. Therefore, we cannot talk about Brexit dividends.
In the short and medium term, a constructive approach to the EU is the fastest way to mitigate at least some of the damage that Brexit has done to the UK economy. Here, too, the prime minister still finds himself bound by his own party, for which any rapprochement with the EU, however small, remains a grave sin.
Furthermore, the Conservatives’ poll numbers haven’t really improved since Sunak took office. If new elections were held now, the conservatives would be completely destroyed in most parts of the country. This also undermines Sunak’s ability to discipline the party.
Around 13 Conservative MPs have already announced they will resign before the next election, while many others have given up and are now looking for new jobs.
Sunak can continue until the next election, mainly because no one in her party wants to disappear from the scene now. However, if the UK crisis worsens next year, it cannot be ruled out (Sunak’s early exit).