{"id":3465,"date":"2020-11-26T14:38:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T12:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2020-11-26T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T12:38:33","slug":"the-uks-global-role-in-the-post-brexit-era-is-increasingly-being-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=3465","title":{"rendered":"The UK&#8217;s &#8216;Global&#8217; Role in the Post-Brexit Era Is Increasingly Being Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brexit supporters&#8217; expectations of the global role and regeneration that the UK would experience by making the best use of its benefits from a full withdrawal from the EU do not seem to be at the heart of the Boris Johnson Brexit&nbsp; government&#8217;s core responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brexit supporters have tossed that the UK after Brexit would secure significant funds for the NHS and its welfare state, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by<strong> Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>\u00a9<\/em><em>The law of intellectual property is prohibited in any way unlawful use\/appropriation of this article, with heavy civil and criminal penalties for the infringer.<\/em><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, Brexit supporters based the UK economy&#8217;s boom on a special trading relationship with the US that would support the UK commercially and economically after Brexit.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve because of Joe Biden&#8217;s election victory in the US Presidency, which as a Democratic candidate firmly believed in a united EU with the UK in order to be able to play the role of rival awe against Russia and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTx4TYIIP6j7N5ZFPGAr0Z4zxLS5fJUB_Pccg&amp;usqp=CAU\" alt=\"Going global after Brexit? Three key principles for the UK and its role in  the international trading system - Trade Knowledge Exchange\" width=\"288\" height=\"234\"\/><figcaption><strong>Going Global after Brexit?<\/strong> <br>Photo by the website www.trade-knowledge.net<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The European isolation experienced by the UK is very strongly influential in relation to any other trading relationship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the abstracts we have mentioned above make us believe that the UK after Brexit will not be able to play a leading role away from the EU in a highly fluid and changing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The opportunities for success turned into failures<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boris&nbsp; Johnson\u2019s government, through the Covid-19 pandemic and in particular how to deal with it, has had the opportunity to demonstrate through its successful management the superiority of the British NHS and the effectiveness of the British system of governance\/management of challenges towards the EU.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far it seems that the British Government has failed both in managing the response to the pandemic and the economic consequences of it. The data so far is revealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In mid-November the UK recorded 52417 deaths from Covid-19, and respectively 45773 deaths in Italy (EU), 45054 deaths in France (EU), 41253 deaths in Spain (EU) and 12833 deaths in Germany (EU) indicating that things went very badly for the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This UK data is a cumulative result caused by the initial devaluation of the pandemic by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who adopted the derogatory stance on the same issue of US President Donald Trump, resulting in the loss of a crucial period of time that led to the complete loss of control of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subsequently, due to the British Prime Minister&#8217;s illness from Covid-19 and his forced hospitalization in intensive care, several restrictive measures were put in place to break the momentum of the pandemic&#8217;s expansion, but it was too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, the British NHS has not been able to make a difference in terms of the effectiveness of disease management. As a result of these slowness, dealing with the economic problems created by the pandemic had gotten out of hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Q22020 the UK economy experienced a GDP decline of 19.8%. Given that the British economy is an economy where its GDP composition is 79% based on the provision of services, it has made it vulnerable to the consequences of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q32020 saw a dynamic recovery in the economy, with GDP growth of 15.5%. But this was a short-term horizon because the second wave of the pandemic created conditions for a temporary return to recession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In October 2020, UK GDP was 8.3% below its February 2020 levels. This is because the UK economy relies 79% on services, so it behaves worse than the Eurozone economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GDP is expected to fall close to 10% by the end of 2020, the annual government budget deficit will approach 18% of GDP with annual unemployment levels closing at 8.5%-9% of the economically active population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British economy is expected to recover in 2021 but in order to heal the &#8220;wounds&#8221; we will have to reach the second half of 2023 and given that an effective vaccine has been found and there will be no third wave of pandemic in British society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this way, the UK has lost valuable ground in international competition, showing that the mismanagement of challenges by the British administrative and government system tests the strength and puts restrictions on the UK rather than the otherwise always accountable in the eyes of Brexit supporters- EU bureaucracy and anchors equally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3468\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The UK&#8217;s mismanagement of challenges continues<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the above-mentioned failures have forced Britain&#8217;s Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a staunch Supporter of Brexit to toughen his stance on negotiating Brexit with the EU, seeking a field of success to present to his compatriots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hard Brexit is no longer fortunate because the fall in UK GDP has vented whatever economic benefit the UK economy would expect from an organized Brexit-a close cooperation agreement between the two sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the implementation of this hard Brexit and before the advent of the pandemic, the UK economy would have an economic benefit of 4%-5% of GDP over a five-year horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when as a British economy you have lost 10% of GDP in 2020 due to poor pandemic management, this economic benefit of 4%-5% of GDP that the economy would have in implementing a hard Brexit is now negligible, since it cannot give you the desired comparative advantage as an economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mistakes of the Boris Johnson government continue. The UK does not accept the special status for Northern Ireland after the end of the transitional period, 31 December 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British Prime Minister unilaterally scraps the agreement &#8211; unprecedented for UK European diplomacy &#8211; and moves the Borders of the European internal market between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British Prime Minister&#8217;s mistake so far is that in this indirect way he fully disputes the 1999 peace agreement, which laid a tombstone in the civil war between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-22.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3469\"\/><figcaption><strong>How brexit can break Britain <\/strong><br>Photo by the website www.abcnews.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House of Lords voted against two controversial provisions in the relevant Internal Market Act in relation to the vote in favour of the House of Commons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This highlights the British Prime Minister&#8217;s misguided policy on this issue, wanting to scrap an agreed Brexit and adopting the stance of a hard Brexit without any qualms about the great consequences for the British economy and the UK&#8217;s international credibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, the time frame for reaching a smooth EU-UK agreement is running out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Division in the UK remains<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his poor performance on the economy-public health and hard Brexit continue to divide the British people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson along with British populist Nigel Faraz strongly argued that the EU is a supranational system that &#8220;swallows&#8221; and limits the national sovereignty of its member countries, which is also the case for the UK as a member country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the fact that the current British Prime Minister insists on choosing Brexit highlights the stark contrasts between the English people &#8211; who voted for Brexit by a majority &#8211; and the Scottish and Northern Irish people respectively &#8211; who voted by a majority in favour of Bremain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result of this division, the nationalist sentiment of the Scottish people, who would vote by a majority in favour of Scotland&#8217;s secession from the UK in a new referendum, is growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slowly and steadily the same will happen in Northern Ireland, as the majority in favour of Catholics and supporters of a referendum (as in Scotland) on Northern Ireland&#8217;s secession from the UK and its union with the Republic of Ireland-EU member country is constantly increasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, we see that the British Prime Minister&#8217;s policies will contribute more to the development of the centrifugal forces to break up the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brexit supporters&#8217; 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