Well that’s good, or at least hopeful, news for the people of Britain.
I don’t take any joy or schadenfreude at the dysfunction in other countries because:
A they’re people and often my actual family and friends even that are suffering and
B absolute clown shoe wearing dysfunction in countries like the US and UK distracts from the common or garden dysfunction at home and makes the incompetent seem at a baseline of competence in comparison.
I’m beyond laughing (except at individual stories when they lecture like in the Milliband post above).
Chancellors of the Exchequer in 2022:
July: Rishi Sunak
August: Nadhim Zahawi
September: Kwasi Kwarteng
October: Jeremy Hunt
November: Rachel Reeves
(Note: I am not especially delighted by the prospect of Reeves being Chancellor. But that’s like saying that I’d rather have someone break my leg than chop my head off.)
We’d need a general election announced on Monday for any chance of that happening, and even then it’s more likely to be December. You can’t get around the six weeks of campaigning that is required by law.
Based on this morning, Hunt appears to be the de facto PM now. This is not good, for the Tories, for the country or for democracy.
Every so often, I think back to how Major replaced Lamont with Clarke who was smart, sensible and pragmatic and was willing to at least get the economy moving even though he could see that the Tories were doomed. The result was that Labour actually had something to work with. That’s not going to happen this time.
Oh sure. There are some circumstances under which that would not apply. But they are mostly completely ridiculous scenarios. Having said that, we’ve had six years of completely ridiculous scenarios, so it’s not impossible…
I wasn’t really that aware of Krishnan Guru-Murthy who @anon59592690 pointed out was a treasure as I don’t get the UK broadcast news. But he has my vote for explaining the correct use of the word bollocks on prime time TV.
