Why The British Panic
3 min readSep 29, 2021
Panic buying, at its heart, comes from a lack of confidence.
In the UK, people have lost confidence in things being predictable, reliable, or just working.
The country has been run by a series of Conservative governments where people have been hired for their ideology and loyalty, not their ability. And this is not a political point; the opposition Labour party has failed to hold successive…