“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.