I wasn’t happy about Liz Truss being crowned PM after Boris (the Red) Johnson was kicked out. Prior to being annointed to the top job in British politics, she was Johnson’s war-mongerer-in-chief Foreign Secretary, doing her best to escalate the conflict in Ukraine and hence provide the excuse for even more deprivations to be heaped upon us back here in the UK.
But something strange happened when she became PM. She started announcing some conservative policies and it looked like, for 5 minutes, the Conservatives were conservative again. She announced the removal of the ban on fracking, she sensibly capped energy prices for two years to prevent extreme hardship and closure of businesses and then her Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, announced some modest tax cuts in his mini budget. His mistake probably was not to significantly rein in spending. The ‘markets’ didn’t like it and neither did the globalist elite - or Beijing Biden for that matter. Cutting taxes to stimulate economic growth is not what the WEF want for the world’s 4th largest economy. They want to see that economy shrink; they want to see Britons punished by poverty, food and energy shortages on our virtue-signalling way to single-handedly ‘saving the planet’ by being the first to get to Net Zero wealth and quality of life (which will actually mean net zero life for many). Bloody tax cuts and fracking to reduce energy dependence was just not on! Who the hell did Truss think she was? British PM or something?
So first they forced her to sack her Chancellor, replacing him with Jeremy Hunter Biden, then they made her a house prisoner in 10 Downing Street (complete with haunted look) and then they kicked her out. Just like that. It took them only a few weeks after she went off reservation and started behaving like she was the leader of some erstwhile economic powerhouse nation struggling to regain its footing. Just before she was forced to resign, the Labour ‘opposition’ forced a vote on reinstating the ban on fracking. It was a shambles by all accounts. Truss’s government won, but only at the cost of making concessions to rebels within her own party which will effectively tie up fracking authorisations in planning red tape until a new ban is instigated by an incoming Labour-lite Green globalist Starmer administration.
So that’s it. They’re talking about Sunak replacing Truss, him being the guy who lost the leadership contest because he nuked the economy with Covid spending and out of control money printing for two years. The cock-sure Oxford educated globalist millionaire WEF puppet who plotted to replace flagging Johnson, whose heart was just not in it any more. The democratic deficit is now running at 100% in the UK and we face a future of food and energy rationing, permanently high prices, increasing poverty and the digitalisation of our identities and our national currency; slaves to the Great Reset economy basically. Unless by some miracle there is a mass popular rebellion or the cluster of tiny genuine opposition parties put their egos aside and unite under one banner to fight the next election, Great Britain is a goner.
Apart from your first paragraph, this sets out my own thoughts very eloquently.
Regarding the ‘special military operation’, it’s vital that Ukraine wins and that Russia loses. There is more than ample evidence of atrocities to show that Putin understands, and responds to, power only, so the more support Zelensky has, the better. In expressing that support, Liz Truss was simply standing up to a bully. Lavrov’s contemptuous dismissal of her was indicative of such bullying, and to her credit, she didn’t flinch.
You’re no doubt aware of the saying to the effect that, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." If Putin were to be appeased, or worse to prevail, it would only be a matter of time before his imperial glowering were to turn elsewhere, the Baltic states for example. Both Sweden and Finland have been jolted out of neutrality and applied for NATO membership for that very reason, and they can hardly be described as war mongers (sp). If you ever drop in to Samizdata, you’ll find some very thoughtful posts, and the commitments are generally well-informed and though-provoking, too.
Incidentally, I miss your contributions at Cliscep, though I don’t get to read it as much as I would like. I’m only dimly aware of the spat that drove you off (correct interpretation?) but your passion and knowledge of the subject I always found a cut above.
I'm wondering if she did it to spite Jeremy Hunt becoming the de facto man behind the curtain. Maybe we will get Boris back! On the Great Reset, have you seen the data that Simon Michaux is presenting on the minerals and ores required? I am starting to see a chink of hope that the WEF etc. plans are self-terminating. Their transhumanist agenda is totally reliant on constant digital surveillance and technology, but if they pursue their net zero agenda, there won't be enough energy or minerals to keep us all digitally connected all the time [which is not a bad thing in of itself]. If there are rolling blackouts, their survellience will have blackout periods too.