The UK government has reached the point of nuclear delusion and confusion.
Nowhere was this clearer than on the weekend loony tunes where the boot-lickers are sent out to test the media and public response to the latest ego trip.
The lunchtime news on the BBC featured idiot on legs John Redwood ( it was radio so I cannot vouch for the presenter having kept a straight face) explaining that the problem of last October's fiscal horror show was not that Liz Truss singlehandedly tanked the economy, the issue is that we need to be – and I quote “more cheerful”.
In the pattern of Trump and Johnson – Lizz Truss
hovers above reality buoyed by the the hot air of her own self-importance, mad delusions, vanity and deeply needy stupidity.
A modest estimate for the utterly failed Conservative and shortest serving PM is that in the few weeks she held that post (and remember there was a hold on her implementation of her master plan because of the death of the queen) it was widely reported by RF economists among others that her irresponsible budget (for which she sacked her chancellor) cost the UK economy a massive £30bn - The Guardian
Following the kinds of figures wasted by the Johnson administration via erstwhile reality TV star and vomit inducing philanderer Matt Hancock – dealing out useless contracts to mates during what was for the rest of us a national covid crisis – the sum of £30bn may seem minor. However, while the country is embroiled in conflict and strikes with everyone from nurses to teachers and train drivers desperately trying to make some match between their over-stretched wages and the tanking economy – these figures matter - at least in the real world.
According to her weekend article in the Boris-de-Brexit Johnson ever supporting paper – The Telegraph – it was poor Lizzie who was badly done to. She wasn’t given a chance. Frankly if she could do that much damage in a month and a half – what might she have achieved in terms of paving the way to Armageddon if she’d been allowed to run til Christmas?
But shame and failure and the suffering of others are as nought in the 21st century Tory party. You can be a tax dodger (Zahawi) and get appointed to cabinet – you can be a bully and remain in cabinet (Patel and Raab) you can party while your voters die (Johnson and Sunak) you can dish out gongs to those who help slide money your way (Johnson) etc etc etc and still think you are entitled to the prestige and remuneration of high public office
In their idea of ‘balance’ the media – and
especially the BBC will usually throw in a rhetorical question about Labour’s
fitness for office after reading out the latest Conservative catastrophes and its lousy useless corrupt, uncaring and criminally negligent administration.
The questions form along the wobbly lines of ‘what would Labour do’? ‘would Kier Starmer
be better’ and so on and so on.
For someone who will – again – vote for Scottish
Independence so therefore has no skin in the game – I have to say that this
question is like asking if a guy with two buckets of water will stand a better
chance of extinguishing the inferno than the guy standing there with the empty
petrol can and the burning torch…
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And because it seems very relevant right now here is an old post that seems more relevant than ever - British boarding schools breed posh sociopaths
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