And she is gone...
https://www.wral.com/elizabeth-ii-th...t-96/20454337/
The Queen is apparently in bad straights right now, family gathering in Balmoral.
And she is gone...
https://www.wral.com/elizabeth-ii-th...t-96/20454337/
This isn't Brexit, but is British politics so it's fun to read the British citizens' responses:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...7651ce90490a2d
My favorite is by an erudite fellow named Tom Peck: "And so we must again state the ineluctable fact that a man may put his pants in the wash but he cannot uns**t himself."
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan
Liz's Chancellor of the Exchequer just got sacrificed over the tax policy debacle...impressively unimpressive beginning to Liz's tenure...
So, a couple days ago The Economist lamented how much chaos there has been in Truss' short time as PM thus far, writing:
The Daily Star newspaper loved that last line so much, they have set up a livestream asking... which will last longer, Liz Truss or this head of lettuce?
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
Stolen from Twitter:
“Liz Truss sacking Kwarteng is like a ventriloquist sacking the dummy for not liking what it was saying.”
Or as Larry the Cat tweeted:
This now makes four chancellors in four months. Only three more chancellors until Christmas!
(Larry the Cat is a great follow, btw)
No one thought it was a good plan. It was never for the good of the county. It was a carrot to rich Tories voters (and their donors) so that she could be PM. She campaigned on it. I guess the surprise was that she went through with it instead of it being hollow rhetoric. She blew off concerns that it would break the £. Why? Because they have been getting away with it in the past. These back benchers planning mutiny knew what they were getting into. They are already trying to change the 1922 Committee rule that prevents a no confidence vote for at least a year. I'm sure the letter are piling up. Expect more Brexit induced economic pain as winter comes. Labour can't take advantage because the next mandated general election is by Jan 2025. Tories aren't going to call a snap anytime soon.
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The betting odds are now that Truss does not survive the year:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/be...al-11665760587
Glass houses?
We start with a caucus state. Move to your favorite state (named after a small rodent I take it?) which is 92% white and whose largest city has just over 100,000 people. Hardly typical. Then go to a state which basically has only 2 cities, neither of which could be called typical. Oh, and the rest of the state is pretty much desert or wasteland. We've been trying for decades to send all our nuclear waste there, after all. Though in their (common sense) defense, they've said "Heck NO!".
After running this gauntlet, 80% of the candidates are gone.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan
That could work.
I am a proponent of a presidential lottery every four years. Anyone can enter for a dollar, okay make it $10 to keep out the riffraff. The winner gets to be president and after 4 years gets $50 million and a retirement home/presidential library at the beach.