Sunak is NOT an ‘elected’ PM as many in the UK media are wrongly calling him, and neither is he a ‘new broom’ which is the old Tory trick, pretending that the latest leader erases the horrors of the very recent past.
Firstly and most easily to grasp is the fact that
Sunak is, was and remains a Brexiter.
And Brexit is at the heart of the economic woes of the country that were
ratcheted up by the Truss mini-budget/massive disaster.
Along with his not-long-ago bosom buddy Boris
Johnson plus – Union Leader Mike Lynch and ex-minister for desperately seeking
Breixt benefits Rees-Mogg and including Truss and Gove and a whole host of
other nasties, Sunak et al should be forced to watch the FT video (below)
in a cold dark room for the rest of their natural lives .
Of course that would be when, Johnson isn’t on
holiday.
Far be it from me – a left of centre leftie – to
praise or even agree with any element of right of centre FT but this you
tube video of the realities of Brexit should be compulsory viewing – albeit
we’d all rather watch the pro-Scottish Independence muppet video.
It was reported last week that a majority of the
Conservative party membership wanted Boris Johnson back. They clearly prefer lying,
cheating, posh racism, opportunism, toadying to Russian oligarchs, proroguing
Parliament and partygate monster etc etc etc to the complete batshit insanity of Truss. I get that.
But they are hugely missing the point of how we got here. That is nowhere more
evident than the muted praise for Truss’s handler Hunt. (see last post)
Decades of Tory- instigated (and Blair supported)
privatisation and involvement of the profit-first sector in public institutions
– followed by Tory austerity followed by catastrophe catalyst Brexit led to the current car crash.
One can only hope that when Sunak has completed the £400,000 swimming pool in one of his four 'family' homes, he might attend at the problems of increased rates of homelessness, exponential growth in the use of foodbanks since his party came to power and of the water companies, privatised by his party, dumping raw sewage into the waterways and coastal waters the rest of us like to swim in.
But here’s the video
Reality of Brexit courtesy of the FT
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