Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss – God Help Us
We are trapped between the devil and the deep blue sea. Excuse the cliché. That is the choice. God help us. The tricky, smooth-talking devilish three-quarter billionaire and former American Green Card holder Rishi Sunak and the deeply out-of-her-depth, obnoxiously silly and profoundly dull Liz Truss.
Following in the footsteps of war leader Winston Churchill, Labour’s visionary Clement Attlee, who created the NHS, and Liberal social reformer David Lloyd George, Britain in September will see standing outside 10 Downing Street with a grin of disbelief either the Thatcher-clone Foreign Secretary or the party boy convicted Thatcher-clone ex-Chancellor.
That is the choice God help us
Following Conservative Party rules, the choice will be made by the 180,000 members who have paid their £25 a year and remained – beyond the call of duty – loyal to the party through the years of austerity that has seen the number of people in need of food banks rise since the 2008 recession from 26,000 to more than 2.56 million.
They have watched the post-Brexit UK economy shrink by 4% with the loss of the large pool of EU labour the market relied on. Small businesses have been suffocated by red tape and trade with the EU is 15.7% lower than it would have been had Britain remained in the single market and customs union.
We have a shortage of pilots, baggage handlers, teachers, doctors, nurses, lorry drivers, catering staff, field workers and fruit pickers – and, for the first time since records began, there are more job vacancies than unemployed people.
What happened to all the workers?
Some 1.8 million Europeans went home to pick their own fruit, drive their own trucks and build up their own health services in such a way that saw Britain as the mourning man of Europe with the highest number of deaths from Covid in proportion to the population.
The coronavirus masked the damage leaving the EU caused to the UK and the 180,000 Conservative Party members (less than half of 1% of the population) will be sitting in their conservatories sipping Pimm’s through the mad dog heat of August pondering their historic choice, Sunak or Truss. God help us all.
Who are the members who have paid their dues and have the chance to select the next Prime Minister? According to Prof Tim Bale, co-author of Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership In The 21st Century, the party is made up of more men than women with 40% over the age of 65, and around 95% identifying as white British. The vast majority of members are classed as ‘ABC1s’, a social demographic made up of the better off ‘upper middle class.’
Now Boris might remain on the back benches. He is imitating Trump in every way. Denying, lying, boasting and now thinks he can make a comeback. Really following in Trump’s footsteps. Maybe he is taking the lead from Trump. They are both Narcissists. What can we expect?
We can expect the worse – damage to our democracy.
This is a truly horrifying Orwellian nightmare of incalculable proportions. This shit show charade has to stop and stop now. Liz truss has openly alluded to making it her sworn duty to make membership of unions illegal and ban any form of protest. If she does this she will be lighting the blue touchpaper on a potential revolution and maybe a civil war, which no one in their right mind wants to see.
William Feneley, ‘a truly horrifying Orwellian nightmare of incalculable proportions’ has pretty much hit the nail on the head.
We are pure greed and evil. I try to wake people but it’s easier to bully autistics and benefit claimants and the disabled than these monsters. I can’t function in this country that I once served. Today I was told volunteering isn’t working by members of the Ramblers Association. So my volunteering for Bosnia as a combat medic not valued. But the greedy mafioso corrupt run this country. OAPs mostly voted the Tory yet they don’t get their state pensions and are from the same benefits as my disability benefits. The arrogance of “I’m better than you & I’m all right Jack” lead to this mess. And I’m struggling every day. I manage my money. It’s my mental health that’s crashing at all the selfishness and bullying in Britain
Heads we lose tails we lose. What a choice.