Margaret Thatcher was the UK’s Prime Minister for 11 years. In that time she started the sell-off of public services, caused massive unemployment, increased wealth for some as well as poverty for many, weakened the unions, cut funding for health and education, and created greater division and inequality which continues today.
John Major was PM for 7 years and had a hatred for “New age travellers”, completed Thatcher’s shutting down of the coal industry, introduced poll tax, and continued her privatisation plan, particularly British Rail.
David Cameron was our PM for 6 years and put an end to EU membership with his referendum, instigated tighter welfare reforms, and his chancellor kick-started deep national austerity which further reduced public services from the Thatcher and Major years.
Theresa May – was just awkward. She was PM for about 3 years and didn’t stop the austerity the country was forced to endure to cut the national deficit.
Boris Johnson was charismatic but ultimately he lie.. sorry, he “misled Parliament” and was forced to step down after a mass resignation of his party’s MPs.
Rishi Sunak is on his way to being a billionaire, the most grotesque possession of wealth and inequity ever. His wife is a billionairess and had non-dom status to avoid paying UK tax.
And (Mary) Liz Truss… she spooked the markets, tanked the pound, panicked the bond and pension markets, drove up interest rates, and caused untold misery to households up and down the UK. She was Prime Minister for just 43 days or something like that.
Save the West? You’re Having a Laugh
And now Mary (Liz) Truss is about to launch her book – “Ten Years to Save the West”
What from? Itself?
Or is she pandering to right wing fears? That there’s some sort of conspiracy to take over the west and “Help us, Flash, we’ve only got ten years to save the west!”
I could speculate about all the possible negativities that Truss will unearth in her new book but the cynic in me suspects it is this…
That people are sick to death, quite literally, of right wing austerity, fed up of inequality, so entirely pissed off with the rich getting richer while the poor, and now the middle class, get poorer.
Truss craved power, had a taste of it, for a mere 7 weeks, and now wants more. As a modern conservative she’s in the thrall of Tufton Street and their unknown, unnamed backers. There’s “dark money” at play here, emboldened by the “success” of Brexit. If they could wrest power from the people and the elites and the power hungry could “take back control” then they can leverage that further.
SEZs and Freeports are on their way, areas where law and decency will not apply because sheer corporate greed is the only master and means that the rich and powerful will take back even more control. You can’t allow the plebs and the proles to run the country, they only want a fair wage and we can’t have that, can we?
The fear on the right is that the centre and the left will stop them. Stop them raiding the west. I had a more sinister term lined up but settled on raid because if this rebuttal is to gain traction then it must be with a more palatable phrase – for a completely immoral quest from Truss and her ilk.
Now I don’t know what goes on in Truss’s head, just as I don’t know what any politician thinks nor any human being on earth. But I suspect that the rich, the powerful, and MPs all pretend that they’re all for the good of the people when what they really think is to get drunk on power and line their own pockets because they are psychotic and greedy. Because you can’t say that can you?
When was the last time an MP ever admitted they were only in it for the money?
Truss wants power and money and another shot at the title. Because if the greedy don’t manage to control it all in the next ten years, then laws could be passed by everyone other than the far right to prevent land grabs and greed.
Let’s face it – they’re fascists and they want full control. If any other sector of society thwarts their game they don’t win all do they? That must be SO upsetting to the sociopaths. And the rest of us must stop them.
So when Truss blurts out of her mealy mouth that her and her heroes have just “Ten Years to Raid the West” then you’d better believe it. It’s just not her side that will be saving the west, it will be us saving it from her and her kind. It’s so similar to the “take back control” rallying cry from those wanting Brexit – it’s not the people who took back control but the money men and the power brokers.
Let’s put a stop to this right now.
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