Watching the detritus of the Conservative Party swill across our screens in a phantasmagoric maelstrom of cretiny, one cannot be horrified by the state of the filth that run the UK government at the moment. So many of the people in that party are so devoid of principle or courage, so riven with multiple personality disorders and so lacking in any form of moral fiber, it warms the heart to think of their impending doom.
I look forward to their impending annihilation at the polls but what real comfort does that provide? By that point they're likely to have bankrupted the country, completely destroyed the provision of public services, hastened an impending climate meltdown and fostered such division in society that people will likely start living in gated communities. They may lose, but given the shit show which is the opposition and the total lack of fight they show, what's the fucking point of fostering this kind of positive thinking? Liz Truss has no mandate for anything other than a small set of tax tweaks which will make very little difference to many people in the country apart from the wealthiest. Her policy on energy prices will mainly rely on pumping government money into the Saudi state; you can almost see the bank balance falling as the money spews out of the country into the hands of the Middle Eastern autocrats who will maybe buy some weapons technology in exchange, oh and your house in London.
The whole thing is a desperate fucking failure, the UK is fucked, it was fucked in 2013 when I left, and it's fucked now. The UK and US political systems, while notionally "democratic" are in fact plutocracies which support a bizarre mix of property owners, foreign investors and a gerontocracy of wealthy older people.
One thing I am keen on understanding, Liz Truss is going to "do something" about energy bills, by effectively handing a load of money over to the Russians and various other natural gas producers. Why is she doing this though? Why does she want to destroy the country through gradually transferring all of it's collective wealth oversees in the hope that the same overseas investors might park it back here and buy everyone's houses so that Britain can become the Conservative dream of a nation of indentured tenants? This cannot be her logic. Is it so that we can all vote Conservative in 2024? I doubt it, the Conservatives are going to be so comprehensively morally bankrupt by 2024 that the chances of them winning a majority without instigating a war is pretty low. Maybe the Argentinians or a similar small foreign power might gift them a a propaganda victory, however this is irrelevant anyway, you don't need to throw $100bn out the window in anticipation of that.
I think the challenge is that they know that if they don't bail out everyone from paying their gas bill in 2022, then people wont pay them. If 10,000 people don't pay their gas bill, you can repossess their cars or harass them to breakdown in a process of state sponsored abuse. If 2 million people don't pay their gas bill and are criminalized, with the corresponding loss of "franchise", the government falls. The Conservative Party is effectively an arm of the British state. It exists in symbiosis with the British State and it always will. The British state will dissolve if 2 million people are criminalized, it's too many. All Conservatives remember Thatcher and the poll tax riots. The country cannot support more than a certain amount of limited civil unrest.
Let's all watch this space to see whether Truss' gamble, that she can bluff her way through and con the markets and the people of Britain, holds. My prediction is that it doesn't and she's doomed anyway, hopefully tearfully running to her armored car as a baying mob breaks down the gates to Downing Street to be airlifted to her Jersey safe house. Where she discovers that Boris Johnson has double crossed her and hands her back to the provisional government to be tried for treason.
Joe Lycett has begun to tear back the facade of this morally bankrupt bunch of shit eaters. Lets hope the cretinous British public let him help them see. Or watch them get distracted by trans-women in Harry Potter or some similar thing while Liz Truss metaphorically burgles their house and Nigel Farage poses with a pint. In Guernsey.
