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NYT doom-mongers strike again: ‘Stockpiling for a chaotic Brexit’

Here we go again. It’s no big secret that these days the New York Times isn’t so fond of Blighty. The American paper frequently publishes gloomy articles about what’s gone wrong in the UK – whether it’s mistaking a newspaper sketch writer’s joke about the French for Brexit bias, factually incorrect articles about London’s once ‘mutton-filled’ culinary scene or questionable claims about ‘Austerity Britain’.

But the latest issue of the NYT may just take the biscuit. The front page carries a story on the many Brits who have apparently started to ‘stockpile for Brexit’. Apparently Brits are already getting rationing underway with one interviewee comparing the situation to WW2:

Odd then that as far as Mr S can tell there are no huge queues in the supermarkets or at cash machines. It’s almost as though this isn’t a nation gripped by fear. Not that the NYT would let the facts get in the way of a chance to bash Britain…

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