Saturday 4 February 2023

Two kings and a queen

We have a Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak.

He has been PM since Liz Truss resigned with ther "economic policies" in tatters.

She followed Alexander Boris de Piffel Johnson who was removed by his party after most of his Cabinet resigned.

That last point should not be forgotten. Like how he appointed someone as Chancellor at lunchime and he resigned by supper.

Sunak is PM in name only, as his Party is riven into tribes who have formed groups in the PCP, and each one pretty much has enough power to defeat any vote if the opposition votes against the Government.

This means that a PM with a 70 seat majority literally cannot pass the mose general of policies, anything too edgy would be voted down by one of the factions.

Truss is to make a political comeback tomorrow, when in one of the Sunday papers she has penned a 3,500 word article outlining her plans for her return.

Or three and a half words for each hour she was Prime Minister.

It is said those who hold high office, or seek it, have an unwaivering self confidence, but that Truss is even trying this after her record breaking few days in Number 10 means she has no shame or self awareness.

Its not just that her policies were bad. They were. Its that it was all uncosted, based on beliefs, and the "markets", the very thing these free-marketeers claim to love. Well, the markets looked at was planned, and baulked. And their confidence and the markets themselves, collapsed.

And that should have been that. But the brain dead don't always stay dead. Apparently.

And then there is Johnson.

Johnson is a backbench MP with a constituency to represent in Parliament, for which he is paid £88k a year to do. But he has not been there, last week he was in Ukraine, sitting in a meeting with its President, with a UK flag on the table, suggesting hewas there is an official capacity, but apparently was just freelancing, but no one says anything.

And then he went to the US to earn hundred of thousands of dollars speaking at a GOP event, representing, well, himself. And all this is reported in places like the Torygraph as if he was still PM and had not been removed by his Party six months ago.

It is no secret he wants to be PM again. A job he lacks the skills or enthusasm to do.

So, back to our PM with his broken party. He has that, and now two previous PMs who want his job, and their fan bases will rail against anyting they see as rowing back on their beloved's core beliefs.

The hole the Conservative and Unuin Party made for itself, just got a lot, lot deeper.

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