Not long ago, inflation in the United States hit a 40-year high, and the West did not fare much better.
In the previous Europe, the United Kingdom was originally a country that controlled inflation quite well, and even Brexit and the epidemic did not make prices fluctuate too much, but in recent months, the United Kingdom has begun to decline off a cliff.
And all this is because Britain followed in the footsteps of the United States and participated in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Johnson launched a full range of sanctions against Russia, so strong that the outside world thought that Britain was going to go to war with Russia completely. However, this seemingly "arbitrary" approach has now become an act of digging one's own grave.
The reason why Russia has been able to stand firm under sanctions is because it holds the two trump cards of energy and food. Now the Uk has begun to taste the consequences, energy and food prices have soared, and the entire British people have complained.
According to statistics from May, food prices in the UK have experienced rapid growth in the past 12 months, with prices rising by nearly 20% even for common cheap foods such as bread, rice and potato chips.
The British like to eat pasta, and this increase is more than 50%.
"The people take food as the sky", and the soaring price of grain is the most affected by ordinary people. In fact, if it is just food, the average household can still bear it, but inflation affects the overall price field.
Especially energy, in the face of severe cold, all families have to bear the high price of energy, and even some families have begun to change the daily way of eating, cooked food as little as possible can reduce the energy needed for cooking.
It stands to reason that in this case, the British government should do its utmost to find a countermeasure. But Johnson's yellow-haired remarks almost triggered a riot among the British nationals...
Johnson said in an interview with the media that the life of the British people has indeed been difficult, and in the case of high energy and food prices, the people actually have a way to cope, that is, they can eat less than one meal a day. In this way, not only the money is saved, but also because of eating less high fat, high sugar, high salt, the body has become healthier.
Although there is nothing wrong with this statement in terms of reason, but the price fluctuations are directly related to the behavior of the government itself, Johnson does not talk about how to solve the problem, but also uses this way to reduce food to "advocate" the people.
In fact, there are not a few countries with similar ideas, and Germany's new chancellor Schoelz said that before Europe was in winter, people could reduce the cost of energy by "reducing the number of baths", "bathing only needs to wash three places, saving time and saving money".
It has to be said that the rapid increase in inflation has seriously affected the daily life of Western countries, and the vast majority of national lifestyles have been forced to change.
But the West still does not understand the root cause of the problem, even if the sanctions against Russia continue to be increased now, it will not be Russia that will fall first, but the Western countries that are accustomed to hedonism.
The bad ideas and strange ways of throwing pots by these leaders cannot cope with the price surge in a short period of time, and even cause more serious consequences.