Posted on 10/22/2022 12:08:38 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The Truss premiership was a new low for our democracy.
So Liz Truss is out. After just 44 days her premiership is no more. ‘I’m a fighter, not a quitter’, she said in parliament yesterday, and now she’s quit. Her premiership deserves to live in ignominy. Not necessarily because her blunders were so spectacular – though many of them were – but because of what this strangled-at-birth stint in Downing Street tells us about British politics more broadly. Which is that it’s a wasteland. An ideological void. A dustbowl of ideas. The lack of even the faintest glimmer of leadership material anywhere in the Westminster circus is horrifying to me. Trussism is but a symptom of a wider malady afflicting our political class.
First, her mistakes. Where to start? Probably with the observation, harsh as it may be, that the very fact she became prime minister is an indictment of Westminster. How serious must the want of leaders be for someone like Ms Truss to ascend to the highest office in the land? She had virtually nothing to recommend her. Not in the way of belief, or style, or ability to connect. Ideologically she was a Lib Dem cosplaying as a Tory. It would be an insult to wood to call her delivery wooden. Every time she compared herself to Thatcher it only reminded us that Thatcher had substance and style, while Liz lacked both. ‘The lady’s not for turning’, Thatcher said, while Truss turned, turned, turned on every single thing over the past fortnight. ‘The lady’s not for turning up’, said Keir Starmer when she was a no-show in the Commons, which is the only funny thing he’s ever said.
She handled the mantle of prime minister poorly from the get-go....
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Heh, the Brits have nothing on us with respect to political wastelands.
No. It’s a “Teenage Wasteland”.😉 🇬🇧
> Heh, the Brits have nothing on us with respect to political wastelands. <
I’m actually a little jealous. The British system is far from perfect. But incompetent leaders can quickly be removed. On the other hand, we’re stuck with Mr. Potato Head for at least two more years.
She was/is the Brit version of Biden!
Someone, please help me with a better word than version and not get us banned.
The Tory Party is the Republicans without a MAGA movement.
Imagine the RINO establishment being unchallenged. That’s the Tories right now. They are hopelessly lost and will get smoked in the next election despite the fact that nobody really believes in or has any confidence in Labour either - and for damn good reason.
What the Tories desperately need to is to rally behind somebody like Nigel Farage and to flush the Globalist, Gaia Worshiping, Remoaner establishment down the loo.
What they need are more Moslems.
I’ll bet Larry would be most capable PM since Thatcher.
Larry can’t sign any spending authorizations because he can’t hold a pen...so yes.
Similar outcome to a guy named Dave Wannstedt, who said while he was head coach of the Chicago Bears - "All the pieces are in place." What he really meant was "All the places are in pieces."
Courage has been washed from their culture since the war. Everyone is expected to think small and go with the flow.
It’s like America. The rightmost wing of the right major party is to the left of 40% of the voters, and most of the party despise those voters.
At least the Tories got them out of the EU. That's huge. They need to take the next step. Reform the welfare state of the UK. They worship the NHS. They need to allow private competition so that the NHS is not the only game in town. But yeah, that's their problem. We have our own $#it to worry about.
I sense that if there is truly a red tsunami, a coterie of Democrat bigwigs and donors will trek to the White House to tell Joe, “your time is up, buddy.”
Not really. The Tory Party has two big factions, one is like the RINOs and the others are Libtards. Even Tories that America thinks are like Republicans are actually far more RINO than the others.
They are hopelessly lost and will get smoked in the next election despite the fact that nobody really believes in or has any confidence in Labour either - and for damn good reason.
Rather impressively, I've seen die-hard Tory backing business folk ruefully admit that while they thought the Corbyn/McDonnell manifesto of 2019 was "bonkers", at least it was costed and run by the OBR and Bank of England - wouldn't have tanked the economy as badly or as quickly as the Truss/Kwarteng "kamikaze" budget did. Imagine that - they're basically saying that the Tories screwed up so bad we would've been better off having the yoghurt-knitting hippie pro-IRA, pro-Hamas, pro-Russia loonie left guy in charge. They also note - Corbyn was pro-Brexit, wasn't massively enthused at COVID lockdowns, and he wouldn't have funded Ukraine's war effort either; he'd have been suing for peace and telling Ukraine to just give up and accept Russian annexation.
They can't work out if Starmer would be better than Corbyn or worse, but they sure agree that BOTH leaders would've been better than Truss.
What the Tories desperately need to is to rally behind somebody like Nigel Farage and to flush the Globalist, Gaia Worshiping, Remoaner establishment down the loo.
FAIL! Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg made their money the same way Soros did. They both hedged on Brexit and made millions, just as Soros hedged in 1992 and made billions. I wouldn't put either of them in charge of a whelk stall. They're good businessmen, good entrepeneurs, exceptionally sharp minds, but the simple fact is they serve other masters and we don't know who or what those masters are. We don't want to end up escaping the Davos lot but having something worse.
JRM is effectively the Tory equivalent of Peter Mandelson (friend of Russian oligarchs who handed out passports to dodgy billionaires). Things are bad enough here without introducing institutionalised oligarchy.
What the Tory needs is:
The NHS is totally on its knees at the moment, but it is not a big state monolith in the way it’s caricatured in the USA.
Internal market competition was introduced in the 90s, and there’s already a healthy private sector (almost all General Practice, dentists and opticians are private).
The problems are really with the hospital networks where if anything too much is being done by private contractors and freelancers - projects that could’ve been done inhouse in a year or two with the right resources are providing revolving doors for consultants on fixed term contracts who have absolutely no incentive to deliver. Their contracts end, new consultants take over, and start from scratch.
It’s currently being broken up into groups where “integrated care services” (mostly provided by the private sector) will take over. Maybe that’ll help.
The UK is too small for a USA approach to work - there’s no way England could adopt the American model without sending the cost of treatment through the roof, far out of range for most people to afford. (some states in the USA have the same issue - USA needs to de-risk across state borders to solve that; if you encouraged much larger insurance players to operate across all fifty states, y’all would see the cost of healthcare plummet. People might not like that - America has its sacred cows too, it’s not just us.)
Well, unless..... Don't want to say it.
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