“UNDER PRESSURE”

Who is to blame for the hasty departure of Prime Minister Liz Truss? The stuff of parliamentary mercantilist democracy

By Sir Charlattam

The tumultuous sittings of Parliament and the very difficult economic situation were already making it seem so, and many of us wondered whether Liz Truss would be able to withstand the pressure. The sudden sacking of minister Kwasi Kwarteng foreshadowed this. Jeremy Hunt's smokescreens did little to cover up the crisis that was about to engulf the prime minister. On the face of it she thought she could deal with the situation because, if she was to emulate the old witch Margaret Thatcher, she would have to take stark measures but she forgot one detail...these are different times and different circumstances and of course she does not have the cold bloodedness of “Maggie”.

Quite simply, British life has gone to hell. One of the strongest economies in the G-7 is now history. The British are showing their discontent and, like the French on the streets of Paris, are burning their gas and electricity bills in protest at the huge increases. The British are not becoming more French in their behaviour but both are affected by the same consequences arising from the misguided policies of their governments which happen to have the same origin.

Where has Britain's and Europe's economic progress gone? The profits from the looting of Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan seem to have vanished and today the establishment's expectations are focused on a mad American-led Russophobic adventure in Eastern Europe that is lining (with taxpayers' money) the pockets of Volodymyr Zelensky and his lieutenants.

To mitigate this, citizens are told that the budgetary aid that comes out of their taxes to subsidise Ukraine is much appreciated not only by Ukrainians but also by Europeans, but these are just empty words for a public that does not believe these arguments. The war only benefits the corporations that make their living from arms sales and also the very grateful Zelensky.

The crazy idea of pushing for Brexit (to revive the old colonial glories of the British empire) aggravated a situation that had already been in decline since Cameron's term in office and which ended up exploding with the rise of May. The arrival of Boris Johnson reinforced the Brexit madness but managed to hold on for a while. After the pandemic everything undoubtedly worsened, but the blind following of Washington's policies to push through NATO's plans in Europe and especially in Ukraine brought it all crashing down.

Today Britain is mired in the worst recession in 40 years and there is no iron fist that can straighten it out. If politics was once glamorous, it is certainly no longer so today. The islands seem to be swept by a tidal wave, not of water but of unbearable inflation that has taken the kingdom to the list of African and Latin American countries. What would Churchill's old boozer say if he saw his favourite sons in such circumstances... Another shot of scotch on the rocks? 

For some in the media, Truss's resignation calls into question Britain's international institutional reputation. But hasn't it already lost that reputation with the aberrations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the interventions in Africa supporting the French and the terrorist actions of its old intelligence foxes against Russia? Playing dumb seems to continue to be the tactic of the British Establishment. In doing so, the press exaggeratedly overstates Britain's institutional importance unless one counts the deaths caused to satisfy the interests that mobilised its interventions.

Truss seemed to be the perfect candidate for the Conservatives and the British establishment. A supporter of militarism that benefits arms deals with the war in Ukraine, an enthusiastic Zionist willing to sweep pro-Palestinian groups out of British universities, a sycophant of the pharmaceutical industry's prescriptions (covering up the SarS-CoV 2 farce produced in US laboratories that closes down the vaccine business) and an obedient follower of the financial system, she could not let them down but... she promised something impossible for the financial establishment to accept.

What was the unforgivable sin of this ambitious and transient minister that infuriated the markets? Promising to lower taxes, plain and simple. That was unacceptable to the power behind the power that lives off the blood of others and that as a global coup seeks that systemic “reset” devised by Klaus Schwav (World Economic Forum) and that her own Tory colleagues (who live and collect money from these sectors) let her know in the worst way.  That is how savagely her own colleagues abandoned the disgraced Prime Minister and some of them even rebuked her in the anteroom of the Chamber: “Get out while you can”.

So Liz Truss was swept away by the same current of this storm and now the ship is once again adrift and the worst is yet to come. The fall of the pound sterling is a clear sign of this. Just to think that there are guys like “monkey cheeks” Johnson in line to take over the helm says it all.