Why The British Panic

Tobias Stone
3 min readSep 29, 2021
no gas.

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…

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