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@shallow-blue saidIn case I created any doubt about the matter, I think this government is appalling. And of course our rulers are at fault. They have been for decades; the Western world swapped small problems for much bigger ones when we dumped the incredibly successful postwar Keynesian consensus in response to a few awkward years in the mid- to late-1970s.
The world's (not just Western world's) problems are due to two things. One is, yes, the combined militarism of Russia and China. But the other half is the combined neo-con exceptionalism of both Trump and Boris.
Whatever happens, this is their fault, as well. Not just their fault; but very much the recent new-money neo-con politicians' fault, as well.
(And yes, that does include @&*$^&^$*@#&^ Rutte, may he rot in hell.)
The point I was making, obviously not very clearly, was that I think Sunak would handle a tricky situation much better than Truss would. But I still wouldn't vote for him in 2024, and I don't think the country would either.
So I think it is their fault, but I also think that it's not their fault. I think a left-wing government that had served through this period would also lose the confidence of the electorate and fall as a result of external circumstances. There are better and worse responses to the global situation, but I'm not sure any response would be good enough to leave a sitting government unscathed.
Trump is much more of a paleo-con than a neo-con, I think.
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Sounds like Euro's are GLAD they pulled out🙂
Trump? You can forget the NEO or PALEO and just stick with CON.
That has been his LIFE.
He couldn't even keep a CASINO from going bankrupt but people think he is some kind of genius.
I think all this happening around the world is due to a drastic decrease in the average intelligence of the human race, maybe due to Covid brain freeze or something else but it seems people are dumber than ever these days.
Maybe it's like that Poul Andersen tale, Brain Wave, where a force field enters the solar system dumbing down all brains?
-Removed-Hahahaha
She worries me, but not for all the populist reasons of her making mistakes.
Enacting a policy that benefits the wealthy exponentially more than the poor and then funding that policy by cutting social programs that benefit the poor is not a "mistake". That was a calculated capitalist plot.
-Removed-I was worried when she took over, but she already seems to be in office but not in power. She's had to dump her signature policies and her closest ideological allies, installing some near-enemies in their place. I'm not worried about her impact on the next two years because I think she'll be gone in weeks.
-Removed-The tories are cracking me up.
It’s obvious they’ve run their course in the current government.
Corruption, egos and greed are oozing forth from their very pores and it’s basically the senate stairs with everyone shouting: “ET TU BRUTE?” as they, like rats, clamber similtanously for power and dry land; stabbing each other in the back and frothing from their numbed beaks, like rabid nazis at hell’s concentration camp in the deepest ring of Dante’s inferno.
I can only hope it drags on for a year. As England slowly sinks into the banana monarchy they have been staggering towards for years; the Russian and Saudi-Arabian bankers which fund the tories spiriling into international oblivion as London’s financial district rips itself a new arse hole and plops out a new slimey turd of putrified Etonian pig shaggers.
Oh, should I continue?
@vivify saidSo democracy in the UK is a farce too, right?
Hahahaha
She worries me, but not for all the populist reasons of her making mistakes.
Enacting a policy that benefits the wealthy exponentially more than the poor and then funding that policy by cutting social programs that benefit the poor is not a "mistake". That was a calculated capitalist plot.
After all, the rich are the minority. Like the USA, the UK is a minority ruled country. A plutocracy.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/09/20/liz-truss-un-us-trade-kwasi-budget-tax-bills-latest/
The majority are not being represented by government. That is not a real democracy. When democracies are bought they are not really democracies.
@metal-brain saidI didn't say anything like that, did I?
So democracy in the UK is a farce too, right?
I said UK's conservatives seem to be just as dumb as US conservatives like you.