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 ...
The odds of Johnson returning by spring 2023?
I watched some Brit journalist yesterday giving it now a 30-percent chance of happening.
Maybe if it were up to the people.
Truss will soon join Boris Johnson and Italy’s Mario Draghi. Emmanuel Macron lost his absolute majority in parliament, and Tweeted out Wednesday, “No World War III”. Daily demonstrations happening in Germany and Olaf Scholz is on shaky ground. He's next. When winter sets in, and German citizens freeze, he’ll be done. Europe and the EU are finished, as is NATO.
Biden's Liberal World Order is over. Dance, sing, celebrate!
PMs come and PMs go. Britain’s had worse. I thought it was about feckless Charles finally becoming King. Him they’re stuck with.
Of course our Rat Party knew that doing so would bring the economy to its knees...but to them that was a price worth paying for getting rid of Orange Man Bad.
I can't be sure why Britain did it but there was at least one member of Parliament,Sir Desmond Swayne,who made an outstanding speech addressing how horribly stupid it was to do so.At one point during that speech he said something like "Madam Deputy Speaker,there may someday be a virus that reaches our shores that would require desperate measures,but this isn't it" And he stressed those last words as the British upper class is known to do.
We Americans can completely understand your dilemma. For nearly two years, we have had an imbecile occupying our White House, being led around by shameless and corrupt handlers.
On top of that, although our system does have recourse for such a case, our Vice President is so stupid that the national consensus appears to be that we had best just put up with the imbecile for another two years.
The Atlantic is not a very good judge of such things.
Tax cuts promote economic growth every time they’re tried. Truss should have stuck to her guns. What left fears most is a return of Maggie Thatcher.
“U.K. has been gripped by a crisis of crushing stupidity,..”
There’s a great quanity of that going around these days.
When so-called “conservatives” are in power, the tax cuts are the only thing that gets set in stone … while the rest of the world goes to hell in a handbasket.
Pushing a political agenda built on tax cuts today is about as politically to e deaf as you can be.
It’s all part of the downward spectacle.
No victory here.
It’s all part of the downward spectacle.
No victory here.
“Europe and the EU are finished, as is NATO.”
You must have missed the news, but Sweden and Finland have just joined NATO. It is larger and stronger than ever.
if the uber-leftist “the atlantic” is attacking liz, she’s definitely doing the right things ...
This era of stupidity of add debt upon debt is the problem. This is the same game plan of the republicans. Except, the market doesn't hold them accountable for running up debts without cuts.
Like the US, the letter after a UK pol’s name means bugger all anymore.
The UK has a Deep State, too.
What it doesn’t have is a Trump.
And it needs one.
Now.
“The Atlantic is not a very good judge of such things.”
Beat me to it. That mag is not exactly a bastion of intellect. Those traits abandoned the DemocRATs decades ago.
Such an angry 😡 Neocon.
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