We gotta get out of this place … if it’s the last thing we ever do
IT seems there’s not a day passes but the news gets worse, and our politicians are making it that way.
Successive Tory prime ministers are doing nothing to improve this Disunited Kingdom – Major was the Grey Man, Cameron was hopeless, May was hapless, Johnson was a Billy Bunter figure full of his own self-importance, a penchant for gaffes, a constant smirk on a face you’d never tire of slapping, and an inveterate liar.
And now of curse we have Liz Truss.
Sandwiched between them all are Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but their tenure was almost as bad as that of the Tories (some might say worse).
But Johnson is also as crooked a politician as I’ve ever seen.
What he has left in his wake has made UK even more of a global laughing stock than it was. Whereas Johnson tried to be sleekit
about actions that were of benefit to his City pals, including those from his chancellor Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng are quite open about it.
The largesse delivered by Kwarteng is destined only to be of benefit to the wealthy and super-rich.
I find myself wondering if either of them knows what a food bank is, and that more and more working people are being forced to use them.
It’s unthinkable that they have scrapped the limit on bankers’ bonuses (bear in mind the financial crash of 2008) and no doubt we’ll be seeing them regularly quaffing bottles of Champagne as they celebrate their seven-figure pay days.
A friend of mine who has the good sense to be a resident of another European country, puts it thus: “Assume you have traded all your pounds for groats, Cadbury creme eggs, camels or even nigerian nairas.
“Kwasimodo Kwartermaster in charge of the economy is like letting an evil devilchild humpback ring the church bells at Christmas.
“Heard latest Tory economic strategy is they exhumed Harold Macmillan and found the notes in his back pocket: observe Keynesian economics (not Trussonomics), join the EEC, support a NHS, some nationalised industries and strong trade unions.
“Oh wait a f*%#ing minute, we just undid all that!”
Well said Mike.
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