Following the presser, Ms Truss held a hastily arranged meeting in her office with Graham Brady, a senior Conservative lawmaker who oversees leadership challenges. Mr Brady was tasked with assessing whether the prime minister still has the support of Tory members of Parliament.. and found, to no-one's surprise, that she did not.
A growing number of lawmakers -- not just opposition members but MPs in Ms Truss's own so-called Conservative Party -- had called for the Prime Minister's resignation after weeks of turmoil sparked by her ill-conceived economic plan, which scared hell out of economists, the stock market, investors and everyone else. Even President Brandon said he didn't think it was a good idea, but quickly added it wasn't any of his business.
Following last month's unveiling of the plan, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng [a diversity hire? Ed.] was fired. Several 90- and 180-degree turns later, the policy was abandoned, but the damage had been done. Discipline within the Cuckservative Party broke down completely.
Walt notes with satisfaction that it was not bunny-brained economic policy alone that brought Liz Truss low. She reportedly had a 90-minute shouting match with Suella Braverman -- a woman of colour -- over, of all things, immigration.
During the campaign to replace Boris "Bozo" Johnson, Ms Braverman was seen by grass-roots conservative Conservatives as their candidate, the one who would at last tackle illegal immigration, as the party had promised to do during the 2019 election campaign. Alas, Ms Braverman was not allowed to reach the final runoff. As a soop to the social conservatives, Prime Minister Truss named her Home Secretary, responsible for policing, national security and immigration in government.
Unlike her predecessor (also a WOC), Ms Braverman continued to push immigration control in word and deed, leading to significant tensions with Ms Truss, who was not especially interested in it. Quite the contrary, during her push to become the next PM, Ms Truss advocated more immigration, as "needed for economic growth" -- the line being pushed by Messrs Brandon, Trudeau et al.
So, being against the open borders agenda, Ms Braverman had to go. Officially, she was made to resign as Home Secretary for sending a fellow Tory MP an email in which she wrote "Why are we trying to appease the OBR? Is everything getting thrown out the window?"
The unelected Office for Budget Responsibility, very much part of the liberal establishment, considers immigration-driven increases in GDP to be ipso facto a good thing. Ms Braverman called liberalizing immigration policy in defence to rulings by the European Court of Human Rights "a betrayal of the 2019 electorate."
Today, the London markets are in turmoil, as is the Conservative Party and Not-so-great Britain herself. Such is the level to which things have sunk that it is reported -- breaking news as I write -- that Bojo has cut short a European vacation to return (he thinks) to 10 Downing Street. What a gong how! Or perhaps a Muppet Show?
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