Then again, I find myself in complete agreement with this:
The Berlusconi comparison (next tweet) seems 100% on the money to me.
Then again, I find myself in complete agreement with this:
The Berlusconi comparison (next tweet) seems 100% on the money to me.
Yeah I think that - as with most things that have gone wrong in the world lately - a lot of this can be traced to brexit. Well, obviously, Britihs politics has always been a shitty pantomime at the best of times, but since the brexit vote in 2016, parliament and politicians and really almost everybody in the whole country (I include myself in this of course) did nothing but argue about brexit. Regardless of whether or not brexit itself is a good idea (it's not) the effect of the vote was for the whole country to grind to a halt while we argued about whether or not we were going to shoot ourselves in the head or not (luckily we missed and the bullet went directly through the foot). And it appears that now we've forgotten that there is any other way to be.What is most striking about UK politics seen from afar is the impression (accurate?) of near-zero discussion about the long term direction of the country. Just never-ending Westminster soap opera, empty positioning where policies and ideas should be, politics consuming itself.
Britain has entered an intellectual and creative recession i think. They have let everything stagnate in order to skim off the top
Boris Johnson was clinging to his premiership on Monday night after 148 of his MPs voted to oust him from Downing Street in a ballot that exposed potentially fatal rifts within his party.
The prime minister won the support of 211 MPs but 41% of his party voted to get rid of him, with many citing his lack of repentance over the Partygate scandal and the public’s loss of trust in his leadership. It was the worst verdict on a sitting prime minister by their own party in recent times.
Speaking after the result, Johnson insisted it was an “extremely good, positive, conclusive, decisive result” that would allow him to “move on to unite and focus on delivery”
“Anyone who believes our country is stronger, fairer and more prosperous when led by Conservatives should reflect that the consequence of not changing will be to hand the country to others who do not share those values. Today’s decision is change or lose. I will be voting for change,” Hunt said.
see now i beg to differ it's not that people have forgotten it's the rhetoric that the result of the vote was exactly what it was and we have to be commited to it, soicism in the face of adversity this is the British way of dealing with things we've done it before and we can do it again.Yeah I think that - as with most things that have gone wrong in the world lately - a lot of this can be traced to brexit. Well, obviously, Britihs politics has always been a shitty pantomime at the best of times, but since the brexit vote in 2016, parliament and politicians and really almost everybody in the whole country (I include myself in this of course) did nothing but argue about brexit. Regardless of whether or not brexit itself is a good idea (it's not) the effect of the vote was for the whole country to grind to a halt while we argued about whether or not we were going to shoot ourselves in the head or not (luckily we missed and the bullet went directly through the foot). And it appears that now we've forgotten that there is any other way to be.
Or yeah, more succinctly, this
I'm liking the twitter campaign about Johnston's outrageous malingering when he was "at death's door" "Extremely unwell" "admitted to ICU" with Covid, when clearly he was perfectly OK - noone normal would even have been admitted to hospital in that mild condition (& of course he gave fatuous speeches and partied soon after leaving hospital)I'm amazed as ever at the collective urge to forget about the covid thing entirely. Politics as normal was pretty much suspended for the last couple of years, which did come almost immediately after the brexit thing, which as you say did create its own kind of politics for a few years, was more or less settled. A pair of issues which have been all consuming. I'd say myself that the brexit thing was at least partly a very substantial and pretty deep 'discussion' on the future of the country, even though, obviously, it was conducted in a very stupid and ugly way
Yeah I think that - as with most things that have gone wrong in the world lately - a lot of this can be traced to brexit. Well, obviously, Britihs politics has always been a shitty pantomime at the best of times, but since the brexit vote in 2016, parliament and politicians and really almost everybody in the whole country (I include myself in this of course) did nothing but argue about brexit. Regardless of whether or not brexit itself is a good idea (it's not) the effect of the vote was for the whole country to grind to a halt while we argued about whether or not we were going to shoot ourselves in the head or not (luckily we missed and the bullet went directly through the foot). And it appears that now we've forgotten that there is any other way to be.
but that is probably more "froth" like partygate, ultimatelyI'm liking the twitter campaign about Johnston's outrageous malingering when he was "at death's door" "Extremely unwell" "admitted to ICU" with Covid, when clearly he was perfectly OK - noone normal would even have been admitted to hospital in that mild condition (& of course he gave fatuous speeches and partied soon after leaving hospital)
That episode absolutely rescued his approval ratings, blocked any rational criticism, and gave him a weird cartebanche to cock up and corrupt the rest of the covid response...
probably involves bankrupting the country to get the parasite outSterling was lower against the US dollar and the euro as questions swirled around the prime minister’s position, having initially held on to gains after the vote was announced late on Monday.
The pound fell as much as 0.7% to $1.24 and half a cent to €1.17 at one stage on Tuesday - a sharp drop from earlier gains of nearly 1%.
London’s FTSE 100 index was also lower, edging down six points at 7602.4 in morning trading.
There are fears in the City over the path ahead for Boris Johnson after 148 of his own MPs voted against him, declaring they had no faith in his ability to lead the party.