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Interregnum - Britain unravelling

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How Does the Stock Market Compare With the Winter of Discontent?

In October this year alone, there were 417,000 days lost as strike action. That's already almost twice as much as in 2018,. which suggests that 22 will go down as a year of incipient recovery. 2022 is interesting because the strikes actually started to win. Thanks in part to this unique opportunity structure afforded by labour shortages and soaring inflation. We had BT call centre workers, postal workers, baggage handlers, a lot of public transport workers. I would say I would frame it as a start. It's not the winter of discontent or anything close. But what I would look for is enough wins and enough damage done to the government politically that it leaves them weaker... but they're

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