{"id":35686,"date":"2021-08-22T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/aug\/22\/global-britain-badly-needs-a-new-driver-at-the-wheel"},"modified":"2021-08-22T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T06:00:27","slug":"global-britain-badly-needs-a-new-driver-at-the-wheel-william-keegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35686","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Global Britain\u2019 badly needs a new driver at the wheel | William Keegan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s feebleness abroad and supply-chain problems at home show how absurd the Brexiters\u2019 dream of a transformed nation was<\/p>\n<p>So much for Global Britain. The fiasco and tragedy of the retreat from Afghanistan have laid bare the folly of the Brexiters\u2019 Faustian pact: choose the irresponsible but vote-winning Boris Johnson as your leader; say \u201cgoodbye European Union, hello world\u201d; and, oh dear, it turns out not to be the triumph they promised.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of the insanity of Brexit and the Johnson government\u2019s manifest incompetence is now seen to be adding geopolitical impotence to economic self-harm. What an achievement! Global Britain? Whatever you say, President Biden. Three bags full, sir.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/aug\/22\/global-britain-badly-needs-a-new-driver-at-the-wheel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s feebleness abroad and supply-chain problems at home show how absurd the Brexiters\u2019 dream of a transformed nation wasSo much for Global Britain. The fiasco and tragedy of the retreat from Afghanistan have laid bare the folly of the Brexiters\u2019 F&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,531,528,6,904,437,221,530,319,4,1158,61,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-brexit","category-business","category-conservatives","category-economics","category-europe","category-european-union","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-rishi-sunak","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35687,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686\/revisions\/35687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}