> The Labour Party, led by the reassuringly dull Keir Starmer, surged to a 30-point lead.
All Starmer has to do now to be PM at the next general election is to avoid eating any babies. Actually, he could probably eat one baby and still get elected.
A truly devastating read. I despair for the country.
I don’t feel humiliated, rather angry though, and just as much against the British public as against the Tories. The public cheered it all on, the great decline: Austerity.
Ends the article:
*”We are now almost 15 years past the seismic financial crisis of 2008 and on to our fifth prime minister. Britain was once a rich country, seemingly well governed with institutions that sat like sedimentary rock on its surface, solid and everlasting. Today it is very obviously not a rich country or well governed, but a poor country, badly governed, with weak institutions. In trying to reverse this reality, Truss has made it visible for all to see.”*
The irony of an american writing this isn’t lost on me
Well, it fits in image with Mr. Bean for the United Kingdom.
/s
Trying to bring a little cheer.
Britain has been rapidly going downhill for more than a hundred years.
We don’t make or do anything useful, we’re at best a destination for rich foreigners.
Anti-intellectualism is really helping to damage the UK. People are dogmatic in their beliefs but base their beliefs on what they read in one newspaper or what they see on one TV station. People are less interested in what is right and more interested in what they believe is correct, no matter how much evidence to the contrary you produce. Truss is a symptom of that and the Tories are helping to increase anti-intellectualism through further cuts to education. Our humiliation won’t change until the general public demands unbiased facts over comforting lies.
That’s why you don’t go to American republicans for policy.
Tax cuts can only ever be done when there’s a budget surplus. And even then, go for the bottom, not the top. As the top will not spend their additional money. They’ll sit on it. The bottom will almost always spend it. Making the economy grow as a result.
I feel humiliation is the wrong word here. Humiliation comes from outside and the causes of the current mess aren’t external. The country is being destroyed from the inside. This is not humiliating, it’s just deeply embarrassing.
For the love of…..pick your deity.
We used to laugh at Italy and Greece
Who’s laughing now? What a shambles, what an embarrassment.
(I’d like to point out I have never voted Conservative and voted remain, I have never been more disappointed and upset at being right).
> which had only just been recovering from its own bout of insanity under Jeremy Corbyn.
Had to get that dig in there
The author has only just detected the sense of decline? I mean, what was he doing when parliament was prorogued to force the Brexit bill through, or when the PM lied to the queen?
Brexit was Britain’s humiliation.
Boris was the punchline.
Truss is the bad comedian they bring on at the end of the night to clear the room out.
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> The Labour Party, led by the reassuringly dull Keir Starmer, surged to a 30-point lead.
All Starmer has to do now to be PM at the next general election is to avoid eating any babies. Actually, he could probably eat one baby and still get elected.
A truly devastating read. I despair for the country.
I don’t feel humiliated, rather angry though, and just as much against the British public as against the Tories. The public cheered it all on, the great decline: Austerity.
Ends the article:
*”We are now almost 15 years past the seismic financial crisis of 2008 and on to our fifth prime minister. Britain was once a rich country, seemingly well governed with institutions that sat like sedimentary rock on its surface, solid and everlasting. Today it is very obviously not a rich country or well governed, but a poor country, badly governed, with weak institutions. In trying to reverse this reality, Truss has made it visible for all to see.”*
The irony of an american writing this isn’t lost on me
Well, it fits in image with Mr. Bean for the United Kingdom.
/s
Trying to bring a little cheer.
Britain has been rapidly going downhill for more than a hundred years.
We don’t make or do anything useful, we’re at best a destination for rich foreigners.
Anti-intellectualism is really helping to damage the UK. People are dogmatic in their beliefs but base their beliefs on what they read in one newspaper or what they see on one TV station. People are less interested in what is right and more interested in what they believe is correct, no matter how much evidence to the contrary you produce. Truss is a symptom of that and the Tories are helping to increase anti-intellectualism through further cuts to education. Our humiliation won’t change until the general public demands unbiased facts over comforting lies.
That’s why you don’t go to American republicans for policy.
Tax cuts can only ever be done when there’s a budget surplus. And even then, go for the bottom, not the top. As the top will not spend their additional money. They’ll sit on it. The bottom will almost always spend it. Making the economy grow as a result.
I feel humiliation is the wrong word here. Humiliation comes from outside and the causes of the current mess aren’t external. The country is being destroyed from the inside. This is not humiliating, it’s just deeply embarrassing.
For the love of…..pick your deity.
We used to laugh at Italy and Greece
Who’s laughing now? What a shambles, what an embarrassment.
(I’d like to point out I have never voted Conservative and voted remain, I have never been more disappointed and upset at being right).
> which had only just been recovering from its own bout of insanity under Jeremy Corbyn.
Had to get that dig in there
The author has only just detected the sense of decline? I mean, what was he doing when parliament was prorogued to force the Brexit bill through, or when the PM lied to the queen?
Brexit was Britain’s humiliation.
Boris was the punchline.
Truss is the bad comedian they bring on at the end of the night to clear the room out.