The Lettuce Has Won. Liz Truss Resigned.
In the race towards the use-by date the lettuce persevered.
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Liz Truss has resigned:
Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister and will step down after a week-long emergency contest to find her successor, she has announced outside Downing Street.
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The final straw for many Tory MPs appeared to be the chaotic scenes on Wednesday, in which a vote on a Labour motion over fracking led to mayhem in the voting lobbies, with shouting and jostling. Afterwards, a dozen or more Conservative MPs who rebelled did not even know whether they still had the whip.
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On July 7, when Boris Johnson stepped down, I wrote:
Bye Bye Boris. I Hope We Will Never Hear Again Of You. - July 07, 2022
A current poll says that party members would favor the current defense secretary Ben Wallace. But that does not mean they will get him as one of the two candidates to vote on as the MPs have the say over that choice.Johnson may try to get someone elected who would look worse in office than he did. Liz Truss is a good candidate for that.
The process will be, as usual, a very dirty business - knives will be out to backstab certain candidates, deals will be made, favors will be promised and not be held, people will be lied to.
On September 5, when Truss won the Conservative Party leadership, I said that Boris might come back:
RIP Great Britain - September 05, 2022
With the election process rigged for the Tories and the Labour leadership held by the hapless and vindictive Keir Starmer there is little chance for regime change in Britain. When Truss falls the premiership could even go back to Boris Johnson.
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Her incompetence and libertarian zeal nearly killed the British Pound:
Liz Truss Is Already The Bad Prime Minister Everyone Expected Her To Be - September 29, 2022
As soon as the 'mini budget' was announced the British pound sterling tanked. This not only against the overvalued U.S. dollar but also compared to the rather weak Euro.Interest rates on British government bonds (Gilts) increased sharply.
After two days the British central bank, the Bank of England, had to intervene to prevent a Lehman like crisis that would have killed many British pension funds. The bank, which had just increased its interest rate to tighten money supply, reverted to quantitative easing by buying gilts in the open market. This will further increase the already runaway inflation.
The lower pound sterling with further increase energy costs. Many British homeowners have mortgage with flexible interest rates. They will get devastated by all of this.
In consequence Truss fired her Chancellor of the Treasury:
Líz Truss Continues To Be The Bad Prime Minister Everyone Had Expected Her To Be - October 14 2002
After only 38 days Kwarteng is no longer chancellor. That is good. But Liz Truss still has the same ideas and in her libertarian zeal will continue to make dreadful policies.How many of those will the conservative members of parliament, who had just planned to oust her, let pass?
Said differently. I do not expect that this was the last episode of the bad movie we have just seen. There are many crises still developing in Britain and Europe that will hit critical points over the next months. Wrong decisions can make each of them worse.
Will Boris be back?
The party membership would likely prefer him over the other potential leaders. But will the conservative members of parliament allow him as candidate?
I have my doubts. It may well be that another conservative leader must fail before they allow that to happen.
Posted by b on October 20, 2022 at 13:06 UTC | Permalink
next page »The Truss replacement will last less than a month, if there won't be a general election. Whoever wins that election will not last too. UK is going downhill. You just can't live off "Putin's fault" all the time. There will be more such happenings in the other EU/NATO countries in the coming weeks.
By the way, I said wait till tomorrow yesterday, before going to sleep. :)
Posted by: Paulg | Oct 20 2022 13:11 utc | 2
British parliment has become the best standup comedy act anywhere!!!
"Johnson may try to get someone elected who would look worse in office than he did. Liz Truss is a good candidate for that."
The moral of the story;
either b is way too smart. or the british elite are way too dumb, or likely both!
keep up the good work b.
the moa from its early days has been and continues to be the go to place.
Posted by: Rd | Oct 20 2022 13:11 utc | 3
Simple question.
Anyone faintly competent to run the UK within any of the MPs in all parties?
Anyone?
Posted by: jpc | Oct 20 2022 13:12 utc | 5
Meh, who cares?
Nothing will change under Labour. It's all theatre to maintain the illusion that we in the UK live in a democracy.
Posted by: evilsooty999 | Oct 20 2022 13:12 utc | 6
The tendency to celebrate news like this should be tempered by the fact they always seem to find a replacement that is worse just to stick it to you and make you think twice about doing it again.
Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Oct 20 2022 13:14 utc | 8
they always seem to find a replacement that is worse...
SwissArmyMan @ 8
Isn't that nice?!
Nice to watch the demise of the UK.
Posted by: Paulg | Oct 20 2022 13:18 utc | 9
My grandmother was born in one of the Second Boer War concentration camps, run by the infamous commissioners of Queen Victoria, Rhodes, Kitchener etc.. The Boers (Afrikaners) were deprived of their lands, impoverished, many women raped, and had their assets (gold, diamonds etc.) looted by the Crown. It took them 3-4 generations to recover, in fact certrain strata of the Afrikaner population haven't recovered to this day. Over 25000 women and children died in those concentration camps. Relative to the total population size, it is estimated that a quarter of the Boer population perished. It was considered the first genocide since the old Testament times.
We never received a penny of compensation from the Crown, unlike other ethnicities which suffered similar fates and which were richly renumerated.
I personally see the implosion of Great Britain as late justice. I have no pity. And the Crown, composed of those imposters, still owes my family renumeration for the concentration camps.
Posted by: xeen | Oct 20 2022 13:19 utc | 10
Respect to the lettuce!!! This is the most heartening news I've had since aunty mabel kicked the cat!!
Posted by: Jo Dominich | Oct 20 2022 13:19 utc | 11
I don't get celebrating this. There are no alternatives. Truss wasn't even the most glow in the dark and 'Friends of Israel' approved candidate. Mordant might be just that.
The West is running out of leaders, it only has managers. The mainstream parties can't be saved they'll simply have to be over-run. They think it can't happen but it already has in the last 10 years begun. The mainstream centre left in Ireland, for example, has declined to nothing against Sinn Fein. These parties think of themselves as eternal but the time will come soon even for the SPD and CDU in Germany.
In countries like Britain and the US with first past the post systems it seems very difficult, realignment is coming along very painfully in those places.
Posted by: Altai | Oct 20 2022 13:20 utc | 12
Internet is down in UK for UK sites.
Cannot access any news sites or blogs, including the useless BBC.
Has the Revolution begun?
Posted by: CitizenSmith | Oct 20 2022 13:21 utc | 13
VD Leyen says that that bad Russia had cut off 2/3 of gas supply to Europe. All EU problems are because of that 'bad' Russia! Putin's fault!
She shook Zelensky's hand, and that's the curse!
Posted by: Paulg | Oct 20 2022 13:22 utc | 14
Her incompetence and libertarian zeal nearly killed the British Pound:
Decades of deficit spending & two years of business-crippling lockdowns, and stupid sanctions on Russia are what are destroying all Western currencies, not just the pound.
And Truss is no libertarian. Did she try to radically shrink the State? Billions in aid for Ukraine, expanded "defence" budget... the woman appointed someone who wanted to make Cannabis a class-A drug, for God's sake.
Stick to your lane, b, you're clueless on Libertarianism.
Posted by: Observer | Oct 20 2022 13:23 utc | 15
The Powers That Be didn't approve of her budget, hence she had to go. Simple as that. Next.
Posted by: Jax | Oct 20 2022 13:24 utc | 16
Johnson coming back would be a big coup for him, and a big embarrassment to the UK. I hope he puts his ambitions aside and let's some other Tory embarrass themselves until a general election gets called.
Posted by: fnord | Oct 20 2022 13:24 utc | 17
Citizen Smith @13
I'm in the UK and am having no internet woes...
Posted by: Observer | Oct 20 2022 13:25 utc | 18
@ jpc | Oct 20 2022 13:12 utc | 5
No.
The ROI on European-American imperialism turned negative sometime during the last few decades, as the elite corruption increased and competence decreased. But, these people internalized too much of their parents’ propaganda. The leadership class has proven incapable of change. They can’t even accept lifelong warlord Kissinger’s advice, for god’s sake, to deescalate. All Western governments need an enema to flush out these shits, before toxic megacolon kills the hosts.
Posted by: dfg | Oct 20 2022 13:28 utc | 19
I m saddened, I knew and said that Liz is the perfect pm for uk. Now I would be terrified if she was the leader of us as she could do real damage to the world (example ofcourse Dumbo bush, although we r grateful to him and his neocon handlers to help end the unipolar world order his leadership caused enormous suffering throughout the world), but as a leader of a has been empire she would only hurt uk as proven by her brief rule. So for a more just multipolar world order we needed her at the helm of uk and her removal brings me sadness.
Posted by: A.z | Oct 20 2022 13:31 utc | 20
Posted by: Paulg | Oct 20 2022 13:22 utc | 14
You're on to something, smells like the "Assad Must Go curse."
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJsMs2DXYAEEPiP.jpg
Posted by: Paco | Oct 20 2022 13:41 utc | 21
Here in the UK we have no genuine political oposition.
So the key take away point is ....
Lis Truss resignation is a massive massive win for Russia and Vladimir Putin !
A message to the rest of the world.
A tectonic shift in global power.
Its over for Britain and America.
My old adversary zannon wont be happy,
He always supported the nazis (i think its a fetish thing)
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 20 2022 13:45 utc | 22
Internet is down in UK for UK sites.
Cannot access any news sites or blogs, including the useless BBC.
Has the Revolution begun?
Posted by: CitizenSmith | Oct 20 2022 13:21 utc | 13
The Revolution will not be televised…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw
Posted by: AParadiseLost | Oct 20 2022 13:50 utc | 23
British intelligence has a lot to say about Putin and Ukraine, but stays mum about Truss and the UK.
Posted by: Passerby | Oct 20 2022 13:58 utc | 24
Posted by: Passerby | Oct 20 2022 13:58 utc | 24
The screams become louder as end becomes near.
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 20 2022 14:03 utc | 25
Even the lettuce knew that Rostov and Voronezh oblasts were legitimate Russian provinces.
Posted by: Clueless Joe | Oct 20 2022 14:08 utc | 26
Observer | Oct 20 2022 13:23 utc | 15
While I disagree that the myths and aspirations of any self-identity are material in any way, I don't see a reason not to use the term neoliberal where it is clearly applicable. Perhaps it hits too close to Germany's ordoliberal ideals?
Posted by: sippy the shot glass | Oct 20 2022 14:11 utc | 27
@ xeen 10
My first wife's grandfather was killed during the Boer war, probably while doing some of the raping. If it's any consolation , the people who are now called the political elite, like Liz Truss , are Thatcher spawn, nothing whatsoever to do with the colonial criminals who are long extinct in Britain.
These twerps copycat the Empire 2 twitter talk, but they know nothing. Like kids passing round a wrapped parcel till the music stops. Open another layer of wrapping and pass the parcel round again.
You cannot get compensation from that evil generation that has gone, but they will be judged by God on the day of resurrection.
Posted by: Giyane | Oct 20 2022 14:14 utc | 28
The Globalists could not allow Truss to implement her stated policies of lower taxes and independant sources of energy. The US, UK, and the EU governments (jury is still out on Italy) have been captured by Davos. Here is an old audio of an Anthony Sutton lecture to students at Stanford U in 1976. Lots of Russian (Soviet) history included. Compare what he said then to what is happening now.
Posted by: Muthaucker | Oct 20 2022 14:15 utc | 29
British intelligence has a lot to say about Putin and Ukraine, but stays mum about Truss and the UK.
Posted by: Passerby | Oct 20 2022 13:58 utc | 24
The same can be said of the Trolls here, fascinating the news they are not allowed to comment on.
Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Oct 20 2022 14:16 utc | 30
I propose a new challenge:
Olaf 'potato head' Scholz
vs
Actual Potato
(Followed by Joe Biden, impeached by end of 2023 by Republican majority - 25th amendment, ie before he becomes a vegetable himself)
Posted by: Et Tu | Oct 20 2022 14:17 utc | 31
Boris Johnson is responsible for sabotaging the peace negotiations in Turkey in March. He should not be nominated for anything but the International Criminal Court.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 20 2022 14:44 utc | 32
Lettuce mourn the loss of the great leader - she could not romaine long enough to fulfill her mandate of completely destroying the UK.
Posted by: worldblee | Oct 20 2022 14:45 utc | 33
Really, who gives a shit about Truss and the fucking Tories and broken British capitalism? Yesterday's news, yesterday's Empire
Posted by: Barofsky | Oct 20 2022 14:47 utc | 34
Now take down Macron and Scholz and obviously the unelected Von der Crazy and we might get somewhere.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 20 2022 14:53 utc | 35
xeen | Oct 20 2022 13:19 utc | 10
Get in line somewhere near the back, most of RoW probably up before you with not only better claims but with better PR ‘look’ and from sizeable countries (India) that could use such claims for serious dealmaking
– from your description it looks like you would be vulnerable to reparations claims from apartheid ‘survivors’ : whatever scrounge you wanted to pull could doubly be used against you
I suggest you try that on Elon rather than here
The ‘first genocide’ ? You know no history ?
Posted by: Gerrard White | Oct 20 2022 14:59 utc | 36
The ROI on European-American imperialism turned negative
Posted by: dfg | Oct 20 2022 13:28 utc | 19
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+1 my man. This place gets a little bit fantastical, with even (former?) soviet agents agents/propagandists waxing poetic about the future utopia of benevolence to be ushered in during the reign of Pi (Putin+Xi).
However, the hard truth is that politics follows resources, which ultimately means it's always about energy. Who's got it, who needs/demands it, who can acquire/defend it.
The demons are like football club managers, constantly evaluating players, trading some, sacking others in a quest for the elusive championship.
UK/US/EU are like old washed up stars, but their time is now up and the owners have found promising new, younger talent.
There's simply not enough energy available to run another credit expansion cycle through the washer. And so here we are ...
Posted by: B9k9 | Oct 20 2022 15:04 utc | 37
Meanwhile Ben Wallace takes a 48 hour trip to Washington and back, due to insecure communications.
To take his orders in the safety of a SCIF?
Ni Internet issues here.
Posted by: JohninMK | Oct 20 2022 15:09 utc | 38
Putin must go curse...
“Putin cannot be allowed to alter international borders using brute force. We will ensure he loses..."
Liz Truss 09.30.22
Posted by: La Bastille | Oct 20 2022 15:09 utc | 39
Yes, this is about Truss.
In the US the last presidential election featured two draft dodgers, one with a golden toilet, the other with fake anti-Vietnam asthma but who has managed to rear a whorehouse, drug addled son disgracefully to be thrown out of the military service. Having a high-minded British leadership duel between a fat former bicycle rider who peroxides his uncombed hair and another "conservative" people-punisher says the same wretched, war-provoking things. Peas in a pod there.
Elsewhere, I would season this general Western leadership failure with a Topsy-turvey moral failure of the highest order: a pro- Neo Nazi German government. if training and repeatedly arming these tattooed killers means what I think it means but I've no cliff to jump off after even mentioning this extreme yet quite visible and, as we speak, extant regression.
This great big governance failure cake ,in general, has baked so long there's nothing left of it but dangerous and incompetent , or willfully neutered leaders. These days the Doomsday Clock's broken, a concept not allowing for for an after-midnight zombiefied Western world, living (as much as I can tell) the beginning of a long, miserable afterlife. But ring that clock's alarm at least in elegy. Or as a last call. In memory of what we said we were.
Smart, ethical, even loving.
Posted by: Elmagnostic | Oct 20 2022 15:11 utc | 40
Bye, bye @trussliz, congrats to lettuce
- Dmitry Medvedev
https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1583100500030808064
Posted by: Jax | Oct 20 2022 15:14 utc | 41
Barofsky | Oct 20 2022 14:47 utc | 34
Can you read? It is widely known and re stated here that the UK has played an important part in whipping up the war on Russia, incidently China, as faithful running dog, and particularly in Ukraine with the notorious BJohnson nix trip when Erdogan seemed to have brokered a peace deal
The collapse of the west, including the corner you're in, is devoutly to be wished and encouraged, yet futile swearwords are just such a sign of your/their impotence and decadence
Posted by: Gerrard White | Oct 20 2022 15:16 utc | 42
Why does Truss mater when you have King Chuck in charge?
With the "grace of monarchy - Scorpion", what could go wrong?
Maybe someone should come out from behind the City of London Corp curtain and show us all what the Commonwealth really means.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 20 2022 15:17 utc | 43
You are welcome to use this image
https://i.postimg.cc/R0kFKCP4/Trussputin.jpg
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Oct 20 2022 15:23 utc | 44
In response to Et Tu@31,
I believe Scholz's canonical moniker is "offended liver sausage" which would likewise be an appropriate shelf-life contestant for him.
Posted by: Skiffer | Oct 20 2022 15:26 utc | 45
A Truss under compression is subject to Euler buckling.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 20 2022 15:26 utc | 46
The people of the UK elected a johnson led tory party with a huge 80 seat majority because he promised to "get Brexit done",finally honouring the democratic choice of the majority in June 2016.
After the media and the mandarins hounded him out of office, the ordinary party members out in the country elected Liz Truss to lead the party because she's not a globalist shill like Dishi Rishi or Jeremy Hunt.
Now a not very British coup has taken place. EU Remainer Hunt has been installed as chancellor. We'll have to rescue democracy all over again.
Posted by: Gt Stroller | Oct 20 2022 15:26 utc | 47
Well called b.
The move is on to get the neocon NuLabInc Blairite team back in as a show of the ‘two party’ parliamentary democracy fallacy - its after all coming upto Santa Claus season, following the American monstrosity of Halloween and a subdued more meaningful Bonfires night.
They have had to wait 5 years before the Labour Party had been de-Corbynifiied.
The Zion king Great Knight Hope minion of the Empire , surkeef, is ready to be rolled in to oversea the final destruction of the post war consensus and the welfare state and the NHS as ‘Labour’ undoing what that postwar Parliament introduced.
That’s how they likes that narrative to go.
So another Xmas election? Without the postal vote rigging and a whole slew of new blairites standing in the now safe again seats.
There may be a twist in that tale if the coup state believes it can get away with the same sucker punch.
The only upside is for C3poo, he gets to move onto a second pm under his reign! Though I don’t know if it technically qualifies because he ain’t had his coronation yet! But he has started lurking around the streets of the EastEnd now finding that the new bicycle landed , road closures has made it impossible to drive around without having to go the wrong way up one-way streets - there’s some kind of metaphor in that.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 20 2022 15:28 utc | 49
Jax 16
"The Powers That Be didn't approve of her budget, hence she had to go. Simple as that. Next."
Oh you are much too hasty. Alexander Mercouris theorised some time ago that Liz was about the "Powers That Be" (WEF) calling an early election so that Starmer could become their puppet. Things have panned out just as he predicted so far...
Jax 41
HAHAHA!! LMAO!!
Posted by: Tim | Oct 20 2022 15:32 utc | 50
Funny how after libertarianism fails (every single time it's attempted) you get someone claiming it was not really libertarianism.
Observer, you're wrong.
Your faith, for it is a religion without any grounds on reality, has been proven wrong over and over.
You lost.
Grow up and accept that finally.
Posted by: Sumguy | Oct 20 2022 15:37 utc | 51
I guess she'll always regret she didn't get to press the button the way she said she wanted to.
(And, for at least a little while, that someone else will get the honor.)
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Oct 20 2022 15:47 utc | 52
i still doubt boris will be back; especially as the mood gets darker in the UK and people can see their breath indoors due to lack of heat. the "partygate" thing showed him to be part of the out of touch and insufferable "elite" so while his party might want him back the unwashed masses won't be amused. even a stoned chav has the attention span to remember he was a major player in their current malaise.
that said, if "not as dumb as truss" is the bar they may just be lazy enough to do it. it's not like right-leaning voters never go against their own interests. then labour will do their usual job of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. maybe they'll nominate prince andrew and announce it at a drag queen story time event.
Posted by: the pair | Oct 20 2022 15:51 utc | 53
Norwegian | Oct 20 2022 15:26 utc | 46
The buckling of Truss was widely and accurately predicted by taking into account
Johnson's parabolic formula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%27s_parabolic_formula
Unfortunately The Johnson himself is unavailable for comment, due to being on holiday. Again.
Posted by: Lapin | Oct 20 2022 15:51 utc | 54
“Liz Truss's cabinet is Britain's first without white man in top jobs”,Reuters, September 7, 2022
Posted by: Meh | Oct 20 2022 16:08 utc | 55
The question should be: Why was she rejected?
I am fairly certain that it is not simply that she is an incompitent, obnoxious, soul-less idiot - those qualities do not seem of concern.
Seems partly to give the public some entertainment and pretense of democracy. But I think that obviously she annoyed the wrong people.
Posted by: jared | Oct 20 2022 16:10 utc | 56
Liz Truss is not a libertarian. It is outrageous to even make this claim. Nigel Farage is the closest politician to a libertarian in the UK that I know of. Truss and Johnson are right wing authoritarians who hold no value for civil liberties.
Posted by: goldhoarder | Oct 20 2022 16:12 utc | 57
With the "grace of monarchy - Scorpion", what could go wrong?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 20 2022 15:17 utc | 43
Your phrase, not mine.
I tried to offer an explanation of why ideal monarchy as a system has some virtues. You did not engage, only choose to lob pot shots appealing to groupthink applause from the gallery.
Clearly you are entrenched in modern materialist views and can't get past stereotypes you grew up with. Fair enough. The view I have offered have never read anywhere else so although it might be deluded it is at least original. In any case, it's an arcane topic and no big deal though I have a personal interest in it (though very little with the current British example).
Though why it gets your goat so much is something you might want to take a look at. Maybe there is more in heaven and earth than in your current rather drab God of Mammon philosophy, psycho.
LOL go lettuce!! sadly, I think Biden has been preserved in formaldehyde, and at any rate he has a Liz Truss in waiting to replace him in Kamala Harris.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Oct 20 2022 16:18 utc | 59
Posted by: worldblee | Oct 20 2022 14:45 utc | 33
! come for the political analysis, stay for the puns.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Oct 20 2022 16:20 utc | 60
Truss represents the agenda of her party and the best among them to pursue that agenda.
Posted by: jared | Oct 20 2022 16:21 utc | 61
I wonder if anybody will see an outline of Liz Truss's head in the clouds.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Oct 20 2022 16:28 utc | 62
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 20 2022 15:17 utc | 43
tut tut i think it was the "radiance of monarchy". fanfic is often hyperbolic.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Oct 20 2022 16:30 utc | 63
I'll take the job. I'll expel all refugees, fumigate London, make Elton John the Queen, and draw up plans for a new British Empire allied with the Russian Federation.
On day 2, I'll arrest all pedos and groomers in the government.
Day 3: A big hiring spree because there's not much left of the government after day 2.
Posted by: Marielle Redclaw | Oct 20 2022 16:45 utc | 64
Now a not very British coup has taken place. EU Remainer Hunt has been installed as chancellor. We'll have to rescue democracy all over again.
Posted by: Gt Stroller | Oct 20 2022 15:26 utc | 47
Although BJ clearly didn't like DJT I find him a similar figure in some aspects raising similar question marks. I don't follow UK politics much having left in the early 70's but I did support Brexit in principle - sovereignty pure and simple - and was disappointed that many of the PTB in the UK were blocking it with parliamentary and other BS. Then down goes Big Bird May, up comes jovial BoJo at which point the most entertaining political theatre I've ever seen in my short life burst onto the stage finally ending with a truly resounding electoral victory. When he writes his book on that period it will be a huge success because he's a great writer and it's fun, lively material.
But the question: Is he / was he for real? Same with Trump: is he really an outsider coming in to disrupt the status quo, or just a figurehead of one faction of the elites around the US body politic currently duking it out? If it's the latter, then all the populist speech-making and 'taking our country' back stuff is a cynical exercise in misleading the deplorables down the garden path to... what?
Was Boris really determined not only to make Brexit happen but make Britain sovereign again? Hard to say. Covid hit within days of the Brexit agreement finally going through, albeit one more year of wrangling remained and covid was at its peak around that time (Jan 2021). Has Britain even been able to deal with Brexit as an opportunity for new approaches? Probably not. First covid and now Ukraine have dominated everything.
Liz Truss trotting out her ambitious growth agenda was extremely silly given it bore no relation at all to what's happening in the wider world, which is the collapse of the West in the face of geopolitical tectonic shifts which any day now will manifest as a veritable tsunami tearing down much of ordinary economic viability. Her plan seemed to ignore any of those factors, blithely deriding Putin's unnecessary war, mentioning difficulties from covid in passing and proposing to go forward into a new era as if anything about this new era is understood, let alone stable enough a platform on which to walk forward.
To me this is all part of the demise of the West which suspect is being deliberately engineered, but maybe it's just karma and profoundly stupid leadership - which by coincidence we see in pretty much every single Western nation at the same time - coming home to roost.
Either way, it seems that both Trump and BoJo are false populist leaders, DJT promising to Make American Great Again whereas in fact the Republic lost all semblance of being one under his watch (though still he is supported), and BoJo promising to Make Britain Sovereign again, though it seems as such the Tory Party is determined to make that absolutely impossible unless insofar as it is the City who will be sovereign again, the British people and traditional British culture be damned - making the Tories archetypical controlled opposition, just like the RINO Republican Party in the US, surprise surprise (not!).
It is hard to imagine, at this point, that either one are not anything other than paid stooges. If they are sincere, then even though able to garner far more support than any of their peers, they are so marginalized from the PTB behind the curtain that they are entirely ineffective and therefore no better than a paid stooge.
Prediction: the City wants Sunak so Sunak they will get. It's either that or a General Election to put in Sir Keith who most definitely IS a stooge who will do their bidding. Win-win. Then the collapse will continue and the Stooge-in-Chief will help steer things such that the City can buy everything left standing on the cheap and the sly, whilst the People get no more than crumbs and rubble. I suspect this is why there is a shuffle. They pushed Boris out either because he wouldn't play or - more likely IMO - they are saving him as a White Knight to offer relief in the form of the Reset Whatever after the collapse, then the Tory members voted in the wrong person who won't do what they want in a convincing fashion. Now they will put their man in place come hell or high water.
Charles will oft be thinking, I suspect: 'uneasy lies the head that wears a Crown!' But since he's a front and center globalist Green New Deal Agenda 2030 Man, maybe he's being set up as World King, who knows, but either way he'll be on board with the City as all monarchs in Britain have been seen the execution period which lopped off one of his namesake's crown-bearing appendage...
I think the British Lettuce should timeshare with the new King Charles III.
He's largely unemployed and overpaid and the lettuce risks a gas-free winter freeze.
He could get some useful modern 21st century "chainsaw" monarchy tutoring from MBS in Saudi (Family) Arabia. After all, he still runs the colonies via the various governor generals in residence. And I believe he's partial woke to wearing Scotish man-skirts from time to time.
Shows definite hereditary potential, imo -- but don't throw out that UK Lettuce too soon. His kingly 'green-ness' may only be skin deep.
Posted by: imo | Oct 20 2022 17:08 utc | 66
dfg @ 19
The ROI on European-American imperialism turned negative sometime during the last few decades, as the elite corruption increased and competence decreased.
The change came in the 70s after the Reagan / Thatcher takeover. After that, anyone who wanted to change the world went into finance rather than politics. And thus oligarchies were born.
Posted by: Hereward | Oct 20 2022 17:11 utc | 67
JohninMK | Oct 20 2022 15:09 utc | 38
“……Meanwhile Ben Wallace takes a 48 hour trip to Washington and back, due to insecure communications.”
Yep. First thought when I read Liz had plunked. What was the trip about?
Was Washington told, or where orders issued?
Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 20 2022 17:20 utc | 68
I kinda think this is a better metaphor for the Truss PM tenure…..
She never got to swan around at the G20, or any of the international circus circuits that are so prized by our “Leaders and Betters”…
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1582804461390471168
Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 20 2022 17:44 utc | 69
Her incompetence and libertarian zeal nearly killed the British Pound
It didn't, but that's the excuse they're going with.
Will Boris be back?
The purpose of the Coup was to get rid of Boris, and anybody like Boris who might have funny ideas about doing things the British establishment disapproves of. The British elite hasn't stopped screaming since the plebs voted to leave their precious EU in 2016, everything that's happened in British politics since has been a counteroffensive against the electorate.
They've already stitched up the selection process for the next chump Prime Minister so Boris won't win.
Posted by: ZX | Oct 20 2022 17:46 utc | 70
Sounds like a good time to make that big Scottish independence push.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 20 2022 17:50 utc | 71
Scorpion #65
"If it's the latter, then all the populist speech-making and 'taking our country' back stuff is a cynical exercise in misleading the deplorables down the garden path to... what? "
This presumes an end game but we're in a continuum. All that's required is a story to bridge the gap between the last story and the next story. A modicum of coherence wouldn't go amiss but that can just as easily be supplied by a public who desperately try to make sense of it all. As long as all eyes are on the storyteller, the children are kept quiet.
I do like the hero's return plot twist; a St. George to slay the dragon. A nice Labour dragon with fire snorting Europhilia.
What's the US version of this show?
Posted by: Cyclops | Oct 20 2022 17:59 utc | 72
The Tory whips have a list of MPs and their potential for blackmail. Should an MP not toe the party line, the whips' job is to bully them into obedience. Threatening to expose their affairs, illegal activities, sexual perversions etc. is just one of the ways to apply pressure. The list contains everything that each MP would rather not be revealed.
A few years ago the list was leaked. The entry for a lettuce consisted of just one word: Fornication. A delightfully old-fashioned term that shows just how out-of-touch the Tories are.
Posted by: Ranelagh | Oct 20 2022 18:00 utc | 73
My memory is not as accurate as it used to be. I rediscovered the list
The lettuce entry states "Fornicated with male researchers whilst backbench MP"
Posted by: Ranelagh | Oct 20 2022 18:18 utc | 74
Amazing.... the latest Italian Government has lasted longer (so far) than the latest British Government.
Posted by: tonyE | Oct 20 2022 18:45 utc | 75
@jpc | Oct 20 2022 13:12 utc | 5
"Anyone faintly competent to run the UK within any of the MPs in all parties?
Anyone?" That is the one billion pounds question.
And apart from there being no competent one in sight, I have my doubt that the Brits are ready for a competent leader. The Zionists are holding them all by their balls.
Posted by: Steve | Oct 20 2022 18:50 utc | 76
Sunak has mates in finance and he called on them to crash the markets in revenge after he was prevented by the party membership from winning the election that was ‘rightfully his’
These same mates will sort him out with lower rates and stronger pound etc once he’s in, no matter how much he spends
Posted by: Night Tripper | Oct 20 2022 18:52 utc | 77
Truss's PM announcement and the queen's death were a couple of days apart.
I made a joke that the queen didn't die of natural causes but heard the announcement of the new Prime Minister, exasperated in disappointment, then proceeded to borrow a rifle from a King's guard, aimed it at the roof of her mouth and pulled the trigger.
While, I was being flippant, given the two bit mug couldn't outlast cheese in the refrigerator, that may as well be a conspiracy theory!
Posted by: FieryButMostPeaceful | Oct 20 2022 18:55 utc | 78
SumGuy @51
Name a single recognised Libertarian (not Lefty or RINO or other Statist) who ever described Liz Truss' policies as "Libertarian", and you might have a point.
Cutting £2 - £6b in taxes for the rich while piling on £200b worth of energy subsidies via deficit spending is not "Libertarian".
But you want to know what system is always embraced by its adherents as "the real thing" but then always gets disowned when it inevitably fails?
Socialism
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Socialism-Failed-Idea-That-Never/dp/0255367708
Over and over and over again.
Posted by: Observer | Oct 20 2022 19:01 utc | 79
Ranelagh | Oct 20 2022 18:18 utc | 74
“………Fornicated with male researchers whilst backbench MP"
Meh.
“Researchers” plural. Question is… sequentially or simultaneously.. ?
Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 20 2022 19:02 utc | 80
Over and over and over again.
Posted by: Observer | Oct 20 2022 19:01 utc | 79
If socialism (the generalized to the point of being meaningless concept you're using) always fails on its own, then why does the government of the USA and so many mega-corporations and banks of the west spend so much time and energy sabotaging, coup'ing, assassinating, sanctioning, spying on, invading, and otherwise doing everything else they possibly can to make "socialism" fail? And why is what emerges usually much worse?
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 20 2022 19:14 utc | 81
Now that he's not a royal, Prince Harry would make a great PM for the UK right now.
Posted by: FHTEX | Oct 20 2022 19:26 utc | 82
I guess there's not a whole lot to do on the back bench, except do research and fornicate.
Posted by: G. Poulin | Oct 20 2022 19:27 utc | 83
After GBR's Truss Is Outlasted by a Head of Lettuce and Steps Down as PM, Larry the Cat - Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office - Steps In as PM...
🇬🇧"His Majesty the King asked me to become Prime Minister because this nonsense has been going on for too long."
Posted by: IronForge | Oct 20 2022 19:33 utc | 84
Either way, it seems that both Trump and BoJo are false populist leaders
Posted by: Scorpion | Oct 20 2022 16:46 utc | 65
I guess you missed the part where the FBI raided Trumps house. If he is a false flag, then why all the persecution?
Posted by: Muthaucker | Oct 20 2022 19:37 utc | 85
Muthaucker | Oct 20 2022 19:37 utc | 85
"I guess you missed the part where the FBI raided Trumps house. If he is a false flag, then why all the persecution?"
They're still pumping the original TDS mass psychosis. In case you missed it, the US is infested with a vermin mass which is literally insane on the subject of "Trump".
Never mind that Trump as president never did anything significantly different from Clinton-Bush-Obama before him or whoever is in charge of the "Biden" administration after him.
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Oct 20 2022 19:47 utc | 86
Man, Truss's teenage daughters must be bummed. I mean, the first teen agers to live at 10 Downing since Tony Blair's, their 6 week residence cut short because of a head of lettuce. Or something like that. No doubt Liz'll have her story down pat by the time the grand kids come along.
Posted by: john | Oct 20 2022 20:02 utc | 87
The power elite in the UK had to quickly get rid of Truss. Truss was all in toward leading the UK to nuclear war with Russia.
Those elite know that Russia will soon nuke the USA. With Truss at the helm they knew that she would retaliate against Russia when this happened. Such retaliation would lead to the end of the UK as Russia leveled the UK.
So, they had to quickly get rid of the poison, that is Liz Truss.
The power elite in Europe are quickly getting rid of those leaders that will retaliate with Russia when Russia nukes the USA. If they don't do so soon, their nation will be glowing toast along with the USA.
Posted by: young | Oct 20 2022 20:24 utc | 88
I have nothing significant to add to the conversation so I'll just say that as the Titanic was sunk by an iceberg 110 years ago, so a British Prime Minister was sunk by an iceberg lettuce.
Posted by: Jen | Oct 20 2022 20:45 utc | 89
Flying Dutchman | Oct 20 2022 19:47 utc | 86
but Trump is the victim here! ("Breathe, Donald. You're the victim.")
he violated some police state protocol. if only he were going to be violated in turn in any way like a typical American staring down the long barrel of the law. who the hell could possibly feel sympathy for him? i feel sympathy for the law of karma, as the nightmare devours one of its own monstrous children.
we had two Presidents under Trump, one named Rexxon Tillerson, one named Mike Pompey. Bush 1 was the only POTUS who was "the decider" in any way of the last 4 elephant man baby shark presidents.
oh, and it's difficult to be inspired even a little by the departure of someone who's only been around a couple of weeks. "anything but the current pile of crap" does motivate some voting habits. Speaking as an American, Truss wasn't around long enough for the kind of animosity to set in that I felt to BoJo. like with Trump, I knew Biden would be no better, but the US media cannot let Trump simply disappear, can it? Truss won't have that problem, I'd bet.
Posted by: rjb1.5 | Oct 20 2022 21:02 utc | 90
[scorpion] "If it's the latter, then all the populist speech-making and 'taking our country' back stuff is a cynical exercise in misleading the deplorables down the garden path to... what? "
This presumes an end game but we're in a continuum. All that's required is a story to bridge the gap between the last story and the next story.
What's the US version of this show?
Posted by: Cyclops | Oct 20 2022 17:59 utc | 72
Thanks. That's a great insight, made my day. (I LOVE insights like that!) And it's quite knocked the stuffing out of my prognosticatory impulses so I can't possibly attempt to answer that last question!
Muthaucker | Oct 20 2022 19:37 utc | 85
If you haven't heard of the concept of "lawfare" you should probably STFU for a while because you're too proudly ignorant to engage seriously with any kind of legal or moral argument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawfare
Posted by: sippy the shot glass | Oct 20 2022 21:09 utc | 92
About the only way I can say something nice about the famously philandering slut is to quote Gene Wilder from YOUNG DOCTOR FRANKENSTEIN:. "NICE KBOCKERS!"
Posted by: Elmer Fudd | Oct 20 2022 21:09 utc | 93
"Líz Truss Continues To Be The Bad Prime Minister Everyone Had Expected Her To Be - October 14 2002"
That's seeing into the future!
Posted by: seedeevee | Oct 20 2022 21:13 utc | 94
"The people of the UK elected a johnson led tory party with a huge 80 seat majority..."
Posted by: Gt Stroller @ 47
Actually only 43% of the UK voted Tory - or more exactly, 43% of England, because Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are pretty much blameless in this instance.
The fact that 57% of the electorate DON'T want you, but you STILL get an 80 seat majority tells you all that you need to know about the UK electoral system.
Posted by: Red Star | Oct 20 2022 21:15 utc | 95
Putin will destroy entire Europe without firing a shot with the help of Europe itself. It might be for the best, EU needs to be dissolved, collapse and start all over again. I just hope US will not bail them out AGAIN.
Posted by: Rod | Oct 20 2022 21:16 utc | 96
Don't be too harsh on Liz Truss. The legacy she inherited was a poison chalice. When ELizebath II inherited the throne the UK was in a mess. At the Queens passing the UK was in a bigger mess. The next PM will not be able to put it all back together and neither will the other parties when they become the government. Since the 2008 financial crisis it is been a case of avoiding what needs to be done and kicking the can down the road disguised as quantitative easing. As a country we are in hoc to the FIRE industries. A bank that thinks it's a nation. Time for NONE OF THE ABOVE to be an option on the ballot paper.
Posted by: Harry terms | Oct 20 2022 21:16 utc | 97
I guess you missed the part where the FBI raided Trumps house. If he is a false flag, then why all the persecution?
Posted by: Muthaucker | Oct 20 2022 19:37 utc | 85
Good point. My best guess is that there is an elite-level conflict and Trump is on one side and FBI-CIA et alia are on the other side. But NEITHER side is really on the side of the American people. Both sides support the trillion dollar a year military budgets. Both sides support the oligarchic structure. Both sides favor Big Pharma, for example.
But let's say you are right and Trump is authentic champion of the people. He did some great things as President after all. Then the lesson of his Presidency is that he lacks sufficient influence and/or support within the plutocracy to get anything substantive done. If the FBI are really against him (and its not kabuki), then he lacks the power to prevent them undermining his Presidency and thus the constitutional republic and furthermore he has no chance of getting re-elected since they managed to turf him out last time, they haven't stopped hounding him so clearly he cannot stop them. If he cannot stop them, they most likely can stop him.
Either way, he cannot deliver on his promise to 'take back the country.' However, there is a sizeable percentage of the politically active electorate (a minority but them's who votes) who crave a 'restore our republic' agenda and will only vote for a candidate promising that sort of thing. Trump does.
The other side runs on a simple: 'the other side is evil vote for us to keep them from destroying our country' platform. Neither side will deliver.
Anyway, I sincerely hope you are right. That Trump is for real. That he can refashion the RINO Party, take both Houses, get re-elected, disband the FBI, CIA and Federal Reserve, close down all the foreign bases, create a real money system, revive US manufacturing, make peace with Eurasia, get out of Europe, stop meddling in Latin America, fire all the Deep State federal employees, stop corporate campaign corruption, get back to paper ballots, reduce DC personnel by at least 50%, decentralize most Federal Departments and eliminate about 75% of them, drill baby drill, revive infrastructure to rival Shanghai, lift up the inner cities, get rid of woke and cancel cultures and all the rest of it. Wouldn't it be grand?
Cyclops | Oct 20 2022 17:59 utc | 72
Excellent points. Churchill's "One damn thing after another" is hard to keep up at Internet speed, especially in a year where nearly all of the West are running elections of some kind.
As for the filler, they are using the usual superficial emotive parables they traditionally broadcast in an election year, as a tool of faction management. Twitter's trending sidebar closely mirrors the schedule of what's now playing on the soundstages in this carnival from hell.
Posted by: sippy the shot glass | Oct 20 2022 21:17 utc | 99
Boris Johnson might return?
My personal theory is that Johnson was canned for daring to raise the corporate tax rate from 19% to 25%. When Liz became the PM, one of her first acts was to cancel the increase.
But under heavy pressure from worsening economic news, Liz fired her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, and was expected to announce a U-turn on business tax cuts, allowing them to rise to 25%. How dare she do that! Now she's gone too.
As it turned out, Liz wasn't any better than Boris at keeping the corporate tax rate low. So perhaps the guy with the bad haircut might return some day. But probably not as Liz's successor.
If my theory is correct, the successor will reverse the U-turn and keep the corporate tax rate at 19%.
Posted by: Cyril | Oct 20 2022 21:23 utc | 100
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Now its Humpty Dumpty time!
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