Showing posts with label Liz Truss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liz Truss. Show all posts

Thursday, October 20, 2022

VIDEOS: Brits don't Truss cuckservative/CINO Prime Ministers

Greetings to our readers in the Disunited Kingdom, where his Britannic Majesty, King Charles, the Third of that name, will shortly receive the formal resignation of Liz Truss, the "Conservative" (read: CINO) Prime Minister who announced her resignation today, after just 45 days in office. Here's what she told the meeja just a day previous to throwing in the towel.

  

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? 

Sunday, September 11, 2022

This week, everything happened at once, Part 1

Finding topics for WWW is like waiting for the streetcar. [They have streetcards in Fort Mudge? Ed.] You wait for hours, then three of them come along at once. In August there was nothing, but in this first week of September I couldn't keep up with reading, let alone writing.

Farewell Liz. We hardly knew ye.


On Thursday, Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and all her other realms and territories, "passed". It's a symptom of the sickness of our society, of our fear of death and the afterlife, that we no longer say someone "passed away", let alone "died". People just "pass", like ships in the night.

It's hard to be snarky about Elizabeth. I am old enough to remember the death of her father, King George VI, and her coronation in 1953. Since then, she was just... there.

She was a rock, keeping calm and carrying on, with that British stiff upper lip, in spite of the turmoil caused by her dysfunctional children and grandchildren, and the problems of not-so-great Britain and the moribund Commonwealth.

The leftist press in the UK and Canada have trotted out a rainbow parade of oppressed indigenous peoples -- Jamaicans in Britain, First Nations in Canada -- to complain of the evils of slavery and colonialism. Never mind that slavery was abolished in the British empire before Queen Victoria (Elizabeth's grandmother) ascended to the throne, or that most of the colonies became more or less independent at least six decades ago. The POCs are still victims, demanding compensation for the abuse of their ancestors.

The one colony which has yet to gain its independence, whose people are still suffering under the yoke of the British, is Northern Ireland. Irish patriots killed Elizabeth's uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, but the stubborn English persist in trying to prevent the reunion of Ulster with the Republic. Sinn Féin say they will "work with" the new king, Charles III, to resolve the impasse, but I say, don't stay tuned.

Footnote: The Queen's last official act, on Tuesday, was to swear in Liz (no relation) Truss as the new prime minister of the Disunited Kingdom. By all accounts, Ms Truss is as woke as they come, a champion of diversity, inclusion, the European Union and the New World Order. She will get along very well with Charles, king of the tree-huggers, who is actually a member of the WEF and a regular attender at Davos. Don't looks for either of them to try to Make Britain Great Again. 

Worth viewing: "Africa is not poor because of colonization" - Dr. Jordan B Peterson and Magatte Wade discuss how economic freedom dictates the success potential of countries, and how Africa's fixation on colonialism, rather than incompetence and corruption, being the cause of their modern day struggles, locks the continent into abject poverty.