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UK heading for winter of discontent?

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Datuk Peter Minos

KUCHING: A new Prime Minister and a new King presents a new challenge for the United Kingdom.

Political observer Datuk Peter Minos said the whole world mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth for she was a great person, truly respected and honoured as she was one great towering lady of this century.

“For decades as Queen of England, she represented and expressed a few good and great human values: honour and integrity, fairness and reasonableness, leadership with integrity and honesty and plain humanity.

“She died just a few days after formally appointing the UK’s new PM. It is up to anyone to see and interpret the happening.

“I see new and troubling things for the UK. It is in an economic crisis right now, struggling and grappling with high inflation hovering around 10 per cent and leading into a recession,” he said.

Minos, who is also Kota Samarahan Municipal Council (MPKS) chairman, stated that prices of oil and gas, food and drinks and all essentials make life miserable for the British, for both consumers and manufacturers.

“Productivity and the national GDP will go down. Recipe to a bad recession. Not an ultimate depression I hope.

“Too tied to and too subservient to the big but very domineering United States (US), the UK blindly hits the Russians with economic sanctions“, he said.

“The Russians hit back in retaliation by cutting off 80 per cent of its gas to Western Europe and this directly knocks the whole of Western Europe very badly, UK included but especially Germany, France, Italy and Spain. The Russian hit and retaliation is very painful,” he added.

He went on to add that the UK is meeting a winter of discontent and economic travails and ills.

“The light at the end of the dark tunnel for the UK is there but just flickering and may blow off in the wind.

“But we must not be happy with the misfortunes of others. We still feel pretty sad with the loss of Queen Elizabeth. We hope the UK will not fall and slide too badly but has room to wriggle out of high inflation and a possible recession,” he said.

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