Posted on 10/15/2022 4:20:19 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
For the first time in my adult life, there is a genuine sense of decay in Britain—a realization that something has been lost that will be difficult to recover, something more profound than pounds and pence, political personalities, or even prime ministers. Over the past three weeks, the U.K. has been gripped by a crisis of crushing stupidity, one that has gone beyond all the turmoil of Brexit, Boris, even the great bank bailouts of 2007, and touched that most precious of things: core national credibility.
Today, we had the absurd spectacle of a prime minister, barely a month into the job, abandoning the central tax-cutting purpose of her premiership and sacking her closest political ally, who had implemented this vision. This all in aid of a vain and surely doomed attempt to cling to power, after the markets concluded that her policies were insane. Never before has Britain found itself in such a humiliatingly risible position. It is the stuff of nightmares: the national equivalent of getting caught short onstage in front of your entire school because you chose not to go to the bathroom when you had the chance.
As hard as it is to get across the sheer scale of idiotic farce now unfolding, let’s try.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Don’t get excited you will get your Putin panties in a twist.
Clearly, reading comprehension is not your strong suit. My comment was directed at the author’s writing style and made no comment on content, neo-Marxist or otherwise.
No, but I admire good writing, even if it is fiction.
LOL - on a Conservative website, a newbie called "No Party Affiliation" praises the eloquence of a Hard Left propagandist, and MY reading comprehension is the issue?
One problem...
People who write fiction do not claim it is true.
A certain incisiveness and precision of writing has been lost in the English-speaking population of the US over the past generation. Thankfully, Englishmen, of whatever persuasion, still possess the skill to wield the language as an artful weapon. American writers, on the other hand, are mired in platitudes, clichés and tired old phrases.
I wonder if Charles gave her a private phone message.
It is such a blatant 180.
I was hoping she would succeed. Not a chance now.
I guess he's under 40. That sense was all over Britain before that. You lost the empire and the vestiges of Victorian/Edwardian Britain are gone. That was a big trauma after the war and into the 70s.
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