I read Isabel Hardman's piece on Theresa May's failure to address social care in The Observer yesterday. It was damning, especially coming from a member of The Spectator's editorial team. In it she said:
That most of the cabinet are demanding more money isn't really May's fault: many of her ministers are having to deal with the legacy of cuts made under David Cameron's government.
And that's right of course. Except May was a senior member of that government, which was run by the two bosom pals of Boris Johnson, her foreign secretary. And it occurred to me that there was no polite way to put this: together they had fucked the government with their policy of austerity. And having achieved that astonishing feat, and called it a success, they are now fucking business and are claiming that too is an exercise in competence.
It takes the most supreme arrogance, stupidity, personality disorder, or all three to achieve both goals and still think you have done something useful. But take a bow May, Cameron, Osborne and Johnson because that is what you have done.
It's just too kind to the word ‘twat' to use it to describe such people. The charge is much more serious than that.
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Well that is quite a precise and accurate description of the four amigos, and the personality disorder may be identified as somewhat psychopathic for at least three of them, while pathological weakness may describe one or two.
Whatever it is, it seems to grow in some types of schools better than others, encouraged by certain types of moral feed…should I say a-moral. Those types have always existed though.
What strikes me is the coincidence of it all. What are the chances of four unstable characters getting so much power to commit so much damage at the same time?
They have f****d the government, business, and the public. What’s left?
What do we do next?
The last one is the hard one
I fear we have to expect serious fallout
I share your anger and frustration – as I’m sure millions of others do too. The $64,000 question is how to eliminate these life-draining parasites when they’ve been voted into power, and not just once. Until there’s an opposition capable of winning enough seats to oust them they will continue to devour the host, viz. society. Considering the damage they’ve inflicted right across the board you’d think it a certainty that they’d be removed at the first opportunity but it’s not looking that way, is it? 5th May 2022 is a long way off yet. Troubling times.
Hope your appetite for food has returned 🙂
The appetite is back, a bit
I can eat breakfast again
And even face coffee – couldn’t do that for three days!
Johnson (& Trump) is an example of what happens when an “entertainer” gains political power.
Accounts by people of seeing Johnson, Camoron, Gidiot in private (actually a pizza place @ Davos) suggest that Johnson is seen by the other two as a clown – they make fun of him all the time – they do not take him seriously.
Ultimately the people to blame for letteing Johnson into power? – the dolts who voted him in as an MP.
In the case of Camoron & Gidiot – they think they were born to rule – but as events show, are unfit to run a corner store.
Right accent, right educashun – still goes a long way in the United Sefdom that is the UK.
The thing with the “f**k business” incident is this:
The characters that were pushing Brexit were variously exaggerating or fabricating complaints about the EU to further a ‘nationalist’ right-wing narrative, to exploit existing prejudices with a view to furthering their own ends.
I doubt that any of them had really thought through the practical, nitty-gritty consequences of leaving the EU, partly because they didn’t actually expect to win the referendum. Now that the inconvenient facts are piling up on them they are losing some composure (to say the least) and losing the plot.
When major businesses say they are going to leave the UK due to the customs debacle etc. Johnson comes out with “f…k business”. Pure frustration and hapless denial on his part, quite funny to watch actually.
I am hoping that it continues like that, that it plays out badly for them and just gets worse. Of course its a shame that the everyone else in the UK has to live through that but that was always going to be the case from the moment that the referendum result came in.
Marco, you don’t think that view is held by all establishment members do you? Don’t forget the small, but influential, band who’s purpose seems to be, get rid of government spending totally, if at all possible, remove all regulation, business is so much better at regulating itself, and to abolish taxation, because we all know that’s robbery too.
This may appear a tad extreme, but sometimes when you join all of the dots, this is the picture that emerges.
These people, if they get their hard Brexit, they will ha,will thought this through, they will already have moved their cash to a safe haven just waiting for industry and the economy in general to collapse. This will after all, be for the best. They will then be back, chequebooks in hand, to buy it all up on the cheap.
They won’t suffer any consequences, they will carry on as If nothing had happened. They won’t give one thought about the consequences for the rest of us. After all, it’s our own fault for not being rich enough or belonging to the right family who could send us to the right schools.
Yes, well this whole idea of a plot to gleefully destroy everything an replace it with a dystopian oligarchy seems to overlook the fact that it would be enormously unpopular and does not have anything like the kind of pretext that sort of plot might require.
They would have to suspend or depose the democratic institutions by means of a military coup and impose martial law. That probably is a tad extreme.
oh no richard you’ve had to use expletives! …
So?
Sometimes they’re appropriate
Not often
But sometimes
I find the phrase ‘Deluded berks’ particularly useful when discussing Brexit.
It takes a lot of ignorant mice to make a fat fascist Brexit!
@ Marie Thomasand others.
it’s all to do with the fagging culture at prep school.
Businesses and bankers are at last addressing themselves to the task of the day: “F*** this government and Boris Johnson in particular”.
It is, alas, very late in the day; and there are some who bend to greet Boris and his policy with their trousers around their ankles.
What they hope to gain is clear enough: they lubricate their complicity with fantasies of being kings and robber barons, free within ther realms to f*** us all in an unregulated replay of the Anarchy of feudal England.
More fools, them: f***ed is still f***ed, and they have more to lose; there’s a nasty surprise in Johnson’s attentions, for the endgame will be blame, and blame, and blame, shifted from target to target so that Boris is the very last to suffer any consequences.
Second last is going to be painful; and the fools imagine that it won’t be them.
Meanwhile, a sufficiently ruthless campaign – firing the inept and equivocating authors of the original ‘Remain’ – might actually salvage something.
Much hinges on Murdoch and his heirs; and, perhaps, on China’s dismay at the destructive successes of Russian influence in Western politics.
Murdoch? Bah.
A pathetic and obsolete dinosaur (technologically and demographically). His influence is evaporating like a puddle in the hot sun. He had stuff-all impact on the last GE or the US election. He can’t even make much of an impact on the polls in Australia where he has a near monopoly on newspapers and a TV channel called ‘Sky’ that nobody watches. This turnaround has all more or less become manifest in the last 6 years. As a force he’s not gone yet but he’s going fast (and not before time).
Yet still claiming credit. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-government-keeps-announcing-great-12836013
Well well, that’s interesting.
My theory (as recently stated) is that Brexit will end up in a phyrric stalemate going nowhere much and pretending that there was some sort of a change.
It looks like they’re heading down that path in a hurry.
Brexit will do serious damage to the UK’s standing in the world and to the health, wealth, happiness and wellbeing of the vast majority of its population. Everyone, even Sideshow Boris, knows that.
Attaching oneself to a populist cause can seriously enhance one’s political career. He also knows that.
He has made his decision and in time he will be judged for the decision he has made. Let’s try to hasten that time.
Bullingdon boys (and girls) !