> Honestly, this article understates the situation. Everyone is bricking it. Yeah, it's really quite bad. I'm yet to talk to anybody who isn't worried about th

> Honestly, this article understates the situation. Everyone is bricking it. Yeah, it's really quite bad. I'm yet to talk to anybody who isn't worried about this, from low class to upper class. > Small businesses and charities are already receiving their new contract quotes and deciding to shut down. Sadly we will now lose many historic institutions that COVID lockdowns didn't quite manage to kill off. Some pubs for example have been around for hundreds of years. > And our next Prime Minister shows exactly no sign of caring about or even understanding the seriousness of the situation. I believe I saw Boris _finally_ committing to building new nuclear power stations, but this is maybe 10 years too late. Nuclear power was such an obvious quick win in terms of energy security, green climate action and energy costs. I hope the UK is able to keep its remaining reactors online a while longer until new ones can be phased in.