In two-and-a-half weeks, this country will experience a ritual too far from the familiar. rice field. The new {9} Prime Minister will take a short drive back from Buckingham Palace, stand outside 10 Downing Street, and say, "Her Majesty has asked me to form a government."
And that person would be Liz TrussThe closer this happens, the less realistic it becomes. Even if it happened, it would be difficult to understand. Last week my energy company sent me a "forecast" of expected energy costs for this winter.
The two don't look much alike. Chancellor Liz his truss equaled him £1,068 in utility bills in January alone. Both break the scale of absurdity to the point where it's hard to evoke genuine feelings about either. Whenever you try to do so, whatever part of your brain responsible for keeping you from falling for practical jokes disables the system so you don't make a fool of yourself.
But in both situations, the surreal reality quickly fades away. Fear will become inevitable. Boris Johnson came to prime minister with a widespread back catalog of writing racist and misogynistic columns for decades. He added another terrifying cannon in his 2018, writing blatantly overtly racist columns about Muslim women who look like “bank robbers” and “letterboxes.”
It's hard to deny that, but we live in a democracy, so he's got quite a few people on his side who don't really care about racist jokes.
On the other hand, Liz Truss,who she calls British workers "lazy",will have to arrange multiple opportunities,which is not easy. No. It was in a book she co-wrote in which British workers were called "the worst lazy people in the world". The Cabinet argues that UK workers need to apply "more transplants" and that foreign workers lack "skills and application".
As usual, I don't know where to start. If Liz Truss had contributed a little more to her role in her Remain campaign, she would have been complicit in the biggest cock-up in British political history: the government accidentally pulling itself out of her EU. would not have been.
(She now says she regrets doing the Remain campaign, as if changing her mind was a retroactive justification for being strategically naive and decidedly unhelpful.) )
Truss' premiership certainly won't last more than two years, and British workers are going through the most brutal economy most of them have ever experienced. Without the massive interventions she now refuses to even discuss, vast swaths of the population would simply be impoverished. Spending is nearly wiped out. All the money is spent on gas, decimating almost every other aspect of the economy.
Liz Truss will probably be reminded on a daily basis that they have nothing to do with being lazy. They work as hard as they can, but that gets them nowhere.
All sides of the media are now flooded with case studies and special investigations into the brutal economic shock to come. On Tuesday, Sky News happened to run a news story about Liz Truss calling British workers 'lazy', a hard-working, relatively well-paid nurse who makes £34,689 a year and uses protein shakes for most of her meals. Directly cut to its own article on the master. Not only is it cheap to buy, but it doesn't require excessive energy to prepare. It's a nurse who works all day and virtually can't afford to turn on the oven.
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In the face of this constant and devastating tidal wave, Truss seems helpless, but what tax cuts mean I can only repeat her old cliché about what to do.You actually get more tax money, by anyone who has ever studied A-level politics, halfway through the Lower Six, it's oversimplified. It's half-hearted nonsense that you tend to notice.
Theresa May joined 10 Downing Street in safe hands and a solid media reputation as her performer. It took her less than 10 seconds for her reputation to crumble, a situation that by today's standards looks relatively harmless.
She finds it hard to believe that anyone has become Prime Minister of lesser public standing than Liz Truss. And from such a peculiarly low starting point, it is very difficult to see that it does not descend even faster. Again and again, from her first day to her last, she would have a millstone around her neck. Don't expect her to keep her head above the water for very long.