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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by 2b3a51 on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:13PM (#35292232)
"[snip]...endless blue-collar UK worker union strikes, riots, protests, etc"

Ummm... nothing like the 70s/80s (I'm old).

Seriously I think that the younger people in the UK are showing immense stoicism and forbearance.

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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by pjc50 on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:19PM (#35292360)
Indeed. All the institutions which might possibly have produced that level of coordinated unrest were deliberately dismantled or atomized. There's no way to turn dread into political action.
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