Britain’s former Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) Rishi Sunak, best known for signing the cheques on the mega-money lockdown policies of the Covid era and pushing the national tax burden to the highest levels in decades, will be the next Prime Minister after the only other serious challenger dropped out at the last minute.
And this is ominous:
But as a Prime Minister now, not just a finance minister, there are other cultural and wider political concerns. Sunak is an acolyte of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and even gained the tacit endorsement of the Chinese Communist Party as a leadership candidate.
I'm taking odds that the British government for the next decade or so is going to resemble that Italian merry-go-round.
ReplyDeleteThis is fine.
ReplyDeleteBear in mind that British Conservatives emerged as the party representing the aristocracy and have never had a consistent policy beyond that: at first they were protectionists, but then they switched to economic liberalism when they saw it made them richer. And they've been flip flopping ever since (Think of the impoverished Brit elites marrying rich Americans a century ago, so much for 'blue bloods'!)
ReplyDeleteThese are the people who the US fought a revolution to get independence from!
Life in the UK won't be good under Rishi, but considering the alternatives life wouldn't be good anyway.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, just like we have our alternative parties, Brits have UKIP. It's not perfect but it's closer to good than Conservatives or Labour.
Maybe the only thing that matters to them is his Indian heritage. Remember the US Democrats push for getting the First Black President. They still have the goal of getting The First Woman President.
DeleteBruce: Time for another revolution!
ReplyDeleteThe Brits regularly overestimate how smart they are. In Australia we have painful memories of the 1942 fall of Singapore. They may also have been undermining Trump, while pushing this whole clandestine Ukraine thing which led to the current war escalation (instead of diplomatic settlement, maybe as set in the Minsk agreement). Meanwhile entrenched forces in the US deep state with cold war obsessions do the same, and work with the Brits as we saw with the anti-Trump collusion.
ReplyDeleteLarry Johnson says he's former CIA and has some specific observations about former associates and how they feed this:
https://sonar21.com/when-it-comes-to-ukraine-the-cia-is-a-clown-show/
bruce, I read Churchill's history and it's not just that they overestimate how smart they are, it's that they pay more attention to proper accent than brains.
ReplyDeleteThe guy responsible for not preparing Singapore is also the guy who didn't prepare all over the Pacific.
So they moved him to north Africa just in time for him to not prepare Tobruk so it fell.
Through it all Churchill keeps telling him how great he is. After the north Africa debacle, they sent him to Iran. Luckily, nobody invaded while he was there.
Yes Veeshir, sounds about right. Like how Eisenhower, who was obviously a very capable and decent man, found it impossible to deal with Montgomery for the same reasons.
ReplyDeleteIf the US alphabets and British 'Intelligence' are now working together that would explain a lot. Seems like I've shifted to the Pat Buchanan camp or something like that, but when he's right he's right.
Bruce: Interesting comments from the CIA guy. Over the years, the more I have read about this agency, the less impressed I have become with its competence. And it's indeed unfortunate that so many people back in the 60s and 70s believed the CIA to be some kind of rightwing outfit; far from it - from its top leadership down, many were definitely left-of-center. John Brennan was one of the worst of its leaders, of course, but he was not by any means alone in his very casual regard for our constitutional liberties, and for his participation in the attempted coup against Trump.
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