Posted on 12/05/2024 4:26:27 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
You can be incompetent as long as you're arrogant.
Like le Boris!
Yeah center-left like Karl Marx.
Anything lightly to the right of Lenin is considered “far right” in Britain.
What macro economists rarely mention is that the total economy is a collection of sectors, industries, and firms. Economic performance may be good as to the bottom line output numbers but still be politically damaging because too many people are not doing well.
Too late
Truss was more like Britain’s Trump.
She was not ‘spat out’ by voters. She was thrown out by the Parliamentary party (the MPs in her party). This was in spite of the Conservative grassroots party members voting to put her in power.
When the Bank of England revolted over her tax and spend plans (even though Labour has done worse) the Grandees used that as an excuse to oust her.
Unfortunately, unlike the US Republican Party, the Conservative party has much stronger establishment internal mechanisms to reject any leader that is viewed as too much of a maverick.
That is why ReformUK at this point is the only option. The Tories will never produce (or retain) a leader like Trump.
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